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Being stuck at home with this little kids' virus I have (Chicken Pox, read 2 posts back for more details), of course, people started sharing stories with me of what it was like when they had the virus themselves. There were plenty of "you'll laugh about this years from now", not-haha, not-very funny, "that's how I lost half my finger" stories that you probably shouldn't tell someone who's in quarantine with something... anything. There were even plenty of cruel jokes about the virus and about the guy with the virus, many of them very personal, many of them with strange references and odd sexual subtext. I won't go into any details about these, I know my friends, their jokes, and I'm still a firm believer in saying the joke with no regard for people's feelings - if it's a real joke among real friends people will get over it, no sense killing a good joke.
But... that's not even what I want to talk about. The stories I want to talk about were few. I'm talking about those stories about the complications that can occur in some cases, abortions, nasty infections, pneumonia, hepatitis and probably many more. According to an article on About.com all these things occur in people with compromised immunity, newborns and adults but it's generally known that if you don't get it when you're young it will give you bigger "problems" if you get it when you're older.
Now, my problem is, if we know it's pretty harmless to kids and we know potential future problems are so big why don't we just schedule a well-planned epidemic for all the kids to share every now and again? I mean, if you prepare well enough you can give the little guys life-long immunity to the damn virus without a lot of hassle. Of course, there's also the possibility of getting a vaccine but that's not permanent so scheduling the epidemic produces better results. Also, if you're prepared most people should develop the easier version of the disease. And besides, it's more fun to be sick with somebody.
I know it's not as simple as that, I also know all you doctor-people reading my blog might have something to say against this, but I just want to know if anyone's given this any serious thought.
NOTE: The picture is of a bird flu virus as it was the first public domain picture of a virus I found. Go figure!
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