Hello Phillipa, well,at least most folk won't have problems from either HPV or Herpes. It's great that future (ooh, phone changed that to a naughty word!) generations boys and girls can potentially be free of HPV.
I was wondering about that too @Buttercupdays, re chicken pox. I had it at the age of 41, when my younger daughter was a toddler. Older daughter got it at nursery and kindly gave it to us. I've never been so unwell in my life. The health visitor was very concerned too, as a man had just died from it. The dismissive doctor at A&E wasn't helpful either - we'd had to go as I was in so much pain all down my face. He didn't diagnose c. pox at all - said it was coming from my teeth
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I too caught chickenpox as an adult … from a small @WonkyWomble 🙄 … I too wa very ill … she had a total of three spots … I was plastered in them … some of which never saw the light of day and involved the use of special creams!!! The doc was quite alarmed for a while. Then a few years later I had what the doc said was a mild case of shingles … ouch! 😫 … I don’t want anything like that again … as soon as I was eligible for the jab I rang and asked for it and received it within a few days! Phew!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm a bit younger than you @Dovefromabove [;)] so I probably wouldn't be eligible for the shingles jag for a while. I also had spots which were in very unpleasant places. Worst ones were the eyelids though - I still haven't got those eyelashes back. The wee one was still in nappies and she had spots in there, so she spent a lot of time scratching My parents never had c.pox, and my sis also had it as an adult, but a good bit younger than I was. When people moan about vaccines, they really need to have a think about the consequences of these diseases - look at measles. When mine were little, they had their MMR, and I remember thinking - glad it wasn't a few years earlier, as I may have been quite worried, because of all that headline news about the 'link' . Of course, the whole thing was thrown out because it had been based on sod all.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What I find so strange are the people who object to vaccines as they don't want foreign stuff put in their bodies, but the same people will quite willingly smoke, drink alcohol, eat McDonald's and any other crap that has a whole range of additives - and that's fine apparently as it's not some government or big-tec conspiracy.
We all have our own foibles (now there's a word) eh?
I remember being at art school when Ecstasy was in common use among some students … I would tell them of all the dangers … they would say ‘Oh, but that reaction is soooo rare … and I just love the way it makes me feel! 🥰’ an attitude to be expected amongst a small percentage of eeeejits … but one hopes they grow out of such idiocy … 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When my daughter had chicken pox I told her that if she scratched the ones on her face she'd get holes in her face ( evil but but worked) I told her that if she was itchy, she could only scratch the one on her ankle. That seemed to satisfy her. Admittedly it wasn't a particularly bad infection.
When the first jabs were rolled out I was speaking to a builder who's about the same age as me. He said loads of his mates were refusing the jab but still taking cocaine and other drugs on the weekend.
It's been over a year since my second jab with no sign of my age group being offered a booster this winter. I suppose I have natural immunity now after we had Covid in November. My wife still hasn't regained her full sense of smell since then. This chest infection that's going around seems to be more common among those who haven't had the extra boosters too. It's rare for me to get a cough but I had this one a few weeks after getting over Covid. Stats from America seem to be showing that the current death rate in unvaxxed people is much higher than for those who get the jabs.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Drugs that are known 'recreational' drugs are semi-ok to me (I don't mean I agree with taking them, but the taker is aware of what they are)- you know what you're taking.
Where I get lost is in the food sector. So much 'stuff' has been added to food that becomes addictive/habit forming that is only there for that reason. And that is more of a conspiracy (as the manufacturers have been well aware of the impact of certain 'foodstuffs' for decades, but still persist) than the 'chips in vaccines' meme, and has an impact on millions/billions daily.
...corn syrup...There was a TV prog about how a glut of corn caused by American farming policy then ended up as CS and that was then used in foodstuffs. A glut became a product that became an addiction.
Vaccine non-conspiracy vs foodstuff conspiracy? How strange the mind of man (Shaun).
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I also had spots which were in very unpleasant places. Worst ones were the eyelids though - I still haven't got those eyelashes back.
The wee one was still in nappies and she had spots in there, so she spent a lot of time scratching
My parents never had c.pox, and my sis also had it as an adult, but a good bit younger than I was. When people moan about vaccines, they really need to have a think about the consequences of these diseases - look at measles. When mine were little, they had their MMR, and I remember thinking - glad it wasn't a few years earlier, as I may have been quite worried, because of all that headline news about the 'link' . Of course, the whole thing was thrown out because it had been based on sod all.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
an attitude to be expected amongst a small percentage of eeeejits … but one hopes they grow out of such idiocy … 🙄
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.