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So I will tell you something that I find curious. From my late teens until I was around 50 years old I would get the flu probably every three years or so. Reaching temperatures of about 102.5°. It became like clockwork, getting the influenza, suffer through it, and then recover. About 20 years ago I had an influenza that almost did me in. I had a fever of about 105.5 and I was sweating, I was burning up, I was shivering. As far as I knew I was dying.
Martha was about ready to call the ambulance but I told her no! And I sweated it out another day. Since then I have never caught influenza nor have I ever had an influenza vaccine since then. I don’t know what to say about that except perhaps my immune system might’ve been sent into overdrive. Those who know more than I do might want to weigh in on this assessment. Hmmm...that's interesting in a really cool way. 
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I have never had one childhood disease - nothing. No mumps, measles, chicken pox - none of that. My dad was the same way. My brother was like me until his wife's little sister gave him the chicken pox. That is the only childhood disease he got and he got it in his late 20s. 
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Can you believe that it was one year ago today that decent Americans "You're Fired!" Donald Trump...and the sore loser is still whining about it. 
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Chicken pox and shingles are from the same herpes virus. Having either chicken pox or a chicken pox vaccine do give you some immunity, but the sad truth is that we lose memory B-cells as we age. So people do get shingles even though they had some immunity earlier against the virus. Apparently the Shingrix vaccine is very good: Like >90% effective.
But there is a caveat. CDC says: If you test negative for immunity to varicella zoster virus, you should get chickenpox vaccine instead.
Interesting factoid: Studies show that more than 99% of Americans 40 years and older have had chickenpox, even if they don’t remember having the disease.
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Chickenpox nearly killed me. Measles nearly killed me. Mumps nearly killed me. Pneumonia nearly killed me. Some things just made me wish I was dead. Lotsa things tried to take me out and failed.
They say what does not kill us makes us stronger.
I say bullsh*t.
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My standard phrase is: Everything that doesn't kill us, makes us wish we were dead!
It goes along with the aphorism: Today is the first day of the rest of the trouble!
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Or was that anti-Pollyanna?
Those "harmless childhood illnesses" can do a lot of lasting damage, including death. Anti-vax parents holding "chicken pox parties" and the like should have their children removed into foster care. Vaccinating should not be "parents choice". Not vaccinating your kids is abuse (unless for very rare medical reasons).
And I say this NOT for the purpose of punishing bad parents, but for the legitimate social goal of protecting children from their parents' insanity, much in the spirit of Child Protective Services and the foster care system.
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Had a brief text chat with NW_P. He's been busy with life stuff...
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Hey kids! I was reminded (thanks, genuinely, Rick) that I have been neglecting our little community. My apologies (sincerely). I like y'all and want to be active in our discussions. I've gotten out of the habit of checking in, and you all know how hard it is to break habits. 
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Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Set your phone for the next six days to check-in. Once you do something six times, it becomes a habit.
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