I got the shingles vaccination the same time as I got the 3rd COVID vaccination. My father-in-law had severe shingles outbreak on one side of his face and it was very painful.

The 'mindset' does apply to omicron.... Nearly no children are getting infected. The symptoms are like chickpox, and flu......

I remember my mother telling me to go play with certain kids as I did not usually play with them. My mother was a nurse and had access to all information available. I remember doing this several times. Once when we were about to leave New Mexico I had the mumps, and no body wanted me around as there were many adults that had not been infected.

You do not want shingles, it hurts.

Adults never had chickenpox parties, kids did.
Considering in a vid I posted before, a high up Israeli "expert" regrets closing schools, locking them down. Should have kept them open for kids education he said.
Now, is he not condoning the "chicken pox party" theory by suggesting this?
Coronaviruses/ Covid-19 are here to stay, endemic. There is advantages in letting kids gain a natural immunity rather than vaccine induced it seems with covid consider the efficiency of these medicines and their short lived effectiveness. Especially considering no one knows what will be the end number for a course of covid innoculations for children.
By no means a settled debate but a valid one societies should have.
I am inclined to wait until 5 years of data is in before considering kids for inoculation. If they were at great risk, dropping like flies, a different approach. But they are not.

I just got my second shingles shot yesterday, and I am home sick today. First my shoulder that got the shot hurt like hell. It seems to be better now. Then I couldn't sleep last night, I had body aches and fever. I'm feeling somewhat better now, but I did take the day off work. I got a nap today, and shut the kitties out of the bedroom. They were greatly offended. But I slept for a couple of hours. The fever seems to be gone.

And yes, years ago I did deliberately expose my kids to Chicken Pox. On Thanksgiving we had dinner with another family that the kids had chicken pox. The middle child got the pox two weeks later. On Xmas eve day the grandparents were visiting, and we took the kids to the Seattle Children's Museum. It was packed. At dinner afterwards, at Ivar's, the oldest tells me her tummy itched. I checked and she had broken out with the pox. How many kids do you figure we exposed? The next day the baby (almost 2 years old) broke out with the pox, and she was really sick. She also got RSV and a couple other viruses in the next few weeks. We were waiting for her to get better so she could have surgery for ear tubes. She got them in April. In retrospect that was not the best plan for Thanksgiving dinner.

There are TWO vaccines (I had Zostavax before Shingrix was available)

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I feel like it's not that long ago, I seem to remember getting measles or chickenpox as a kid and being told, "Now you've had it once, that's that."

I had shingles in my late 30s. Definitely get the shots.

Today's Darwin Award winner.

Some of those kids who were intentionally exposed to chicken pox developed shingles later in life.

Darwin wins again