In the 50s 5 of 6 kids in my family had chicken pox. Probably 100 of 500 in the Ken WA school. Made the local paper, but not the big city paper. Not TV or radio. We all lived.
2015 I’m in Atlanta hospital for pneumonia. String of CMS $ chasing doctors pops their head in the doorway and diagnoses me for a variety of diseases. One Doc pops his head in the doorway and says “you have shingles. Everybody had chicken pox back in the 50s.”
Of course, I did not and do not have shingles. But the Doc knew the survival rate from chicken pox was very high.
This whole NC thing is overblown. So some people relive pre-vaccination. Big deal.
Chickenpox is not bad for healthy people, but it is deadly to people with low immunity like those on steroids or that are having chemo for cancer.