The other night I was watching the news and I heard something strange and disturbing. The news was covering a new trend in the parenting world in which parents are ordering illnesses offline. This at first seemed like some kind of gag story so I sat down and was prepared to have a few laughs. I was greatly taken aback when I found out that this was actually real.
They call themselves the Chicken Pox Party and they are a parental group who greatly disagrees with the current methods of immunization. Parents here in Arizona seem to have been the first to start the trend and it has spread as far as Tennessee, maybe even further. Apparently parents have become fed up with the immunization industry and are striking out by getting children immunized the 'natural way', which is letting their children just catch the illness.
To make it even more strange, the method in which they ship illness is odd. Parents who's children have caught chicken pox, small pox, or measles give their children a lollipop to suck on, they then take that lollipop and package it for shipment to other parents. The recipient parents take the lollipop and give it to their children and voila! This is unsanitary to say the least. This method is something that is reminiscent of the anthrax incident of the early 2000's. So parents beware of strange packages, this is one piece of mail that you should definitely keep out of reach of children.
They call themselves the Chicken Pox Party and they are a parental group who greatly disagrees with the current methods of immunization. Parents here in Arizona seem to have been the first to start the trend and it has spread as far as Tennessee, maybe even further. Apparently parents have become fed up with the immunization industry and are striking out by getting children immunized the 'natural way', which is letting their children just catch the illness.
To make it even more strange, the method in which they ship illness is odd. Parents who's children have caught chicken pox, small pox, or measles give their children a lollipop to suck on, they then take that lollipop and package it for shipment to other parents. The recipient parents take the lollipop and give it to their children and voila! This is unsanitary to say the least. This method is something that is reminiscent of the anthrax incident of the early 2000's. So parents beware of strange packages, this is one piece of mail that you should definitely keep out of reach of children.
