Talk:Pox party

Merge

Consider merging this article into Inoculation. --Una Smith (talk) 19:25, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

History of this article

This article was merged into Chickenpox in March 2006 but the merge was not stable; see the history of this talk page for details. --Una Smith (talk) 19:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Pox partying is bad

Don't do it. There are a few fundamental things wrong here. Pox parties are evil. End. Not telling your kids about it is more evil. You must be honest if you want them to be honest: otherwise you will:

  a) be a dishonest hypocritical person
  b) lose trust and respect if they find out
  c) violate a fundamental rule.

Good leaders lead by example: they are honest and their kids and colleagues and employees are honest too. Plus, they don't have any grudges or tension inside them, and they know what to expect. Benefits outweigh the risks here. Bad leaders lead by fear and hypocrisy, power and dishonesty. Resentment and grudges build up, and also a desire to know the truth. Only the most perfect parents can pull this off perfectly without leaking the wrong information to their children. The kids know about punishment and their subservience, but once they find out they are being fed false information, their anger and resentment gets all the worse: think of the African slave trade. Sometimes, the slaves will rebel and group together, and fight for their freedom out of anger, fear and disgust. There are too many risks here, but unfortunately lots of people don't realize this.

Better still, get the vaccine. The vaccine is essentially a weakened or dead version of the real thing. YES, you may need booster shots (but not very often: once every two decades is negligible), but NO it isn't as risky as you may think, because it is still the same virus, nothing else. And its less severe, obviously, and therefore less itchy and annoying. The real thing, however, can, and has, killed.

NOTE: there is another version of a vaccine, which injects antibodies into the systen instead of viruses, but the antibodies won't last long and instead these "vaccines" are used in the short term as a "warning" to the immune system that something big is about to come, like a particularly large army of varicella zoster viruses. These aren't actual vaccines, they are just antibodies there to help in the "war effort" against the virus armies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by HawkFromHell (talk • contribs) 13:10, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Uh oh... I forgot to sign --LOLCat talk 04:22, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Talk pages are for discussing the article, not for general conversation about the article's subject (much less other subjects). See WP:TALK for more. Grover cleveland (talk) 15:45, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

Whoops. Okay I understand now. Thank you!--LOLCat talk 04:51, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

article is totally irresponsible as it stands

Some responsible person with more time than me should edit this article to make clear that: (1) this would be seen as child endangerment if not child abuse in most jurisdictions (I say this as an attorney); (2) hosting one of these introduces substantial civil liability risk for the culprits (see above); (3) the chicken-pox virus causes long-term complications in a non-trivial portion of individuals who are infected; and (4) acute exposure to high viral load levels, such as via deliberate exposure, increases the severity of most viral illnesses.

I am constantly amazed at the stupidity of the human species. 98.210.156.174 (talk) 05:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)