Merged Pox Party! / Chicken pox lollipops

So only Fallout players will get this, but it is a valid point none the less.

In the fallout games i always have a hard time using "normal" guns. The homemade ones, with their duct tape and soda cans are just so much cooler.

Problem being the homemade weapons are always less effective than the normal ones.

And for the life of me this seems the same line of thought that is going through the parents minds.

" I could either take my kid into the doctor, and get a boring vaccination that the kid is going to complain about. Or i could have a cool little get together, some cake and a good time, and get it done. Though my kid will have to go through some fairly unpleasant times to do so. "

While this is a silly but non harmful choice in an RPG, in real life going for flavor versus effectiveness is a stupid and dangerous strategy.
 
sophia8 said:
Yes, another big facepalm here. There's other dangers in this too, besides catching chickenpox. Wrapping up a spit-covered sweet in plastic and letting it marianate for a couple of days in a nice warm padded envelope is a good way of growing all kinds of fascinating organisms. Also, what's to stop some random psycho - or even a bioterrorist - from joining one of these groups, pretending to be a mom with a sick kid and sending out lollipops laced with some interesting pathogen? None of these idiots would recognise that it wasn't chickenpox until way too late.
Oh, and as for letting strangers on the internet know where your kids live - way to go mom!
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Or even just a prankster sending laxative lollipops ( best case scenario.) or laced with something like LSD.

This just seems to be the parents thinking " We don't have enough dangerous things since child proof caps, and vaccines, lets fix that. "
 
Susheel said:
... And as illnesses go, cp is a pretty benign disease. ...
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This is the problem, the mistaken belief that an infection which is common and has a mild outcome most of the time seems to people to be mild all the time. Everyone sees all the mild cases. Some of us see the severe and fatal cases. People always imagine that can't happen to them or their kids. The people who suffered severe or fatal disease must have been abnormal to begin with. Of course that isn't true and serious disease can occur in anyone for reasons we don't yet know.

It's all about the face of the disease. Not many people are aware of the infection behind the mask.

Epidemiology of severe varicella–zoster virus infection in Spain
Abstract
Data of hospitalizations for varicella and herpes zoster in Spain during the 1999–2000 period were obtained from the national surveillance system for hospital data. A total of 3083 hospitalizations for varicella and 6324 for herpes zoster were identified, representing an annual incidence of 4.1 and 8.4 per 100,000 persons per year, respectively. Almost half of patients hospitalized for varicella were children under 5 years of age. In contrast, 78% of hospitalizations for zoster occurred in adults >50 years of age. Hospitalizations for varicella and herpes zoster resulted annually in 11,141 and 40,090 days of hospitalization and a cost of € 3.2 and 7.0 million, respectively.
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(emphasis mine)

That is just one country and a one year slice of time. Benign indeed. :rolleyes:
 
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