To be furious that local mums take their children out to play when they have chickenpox?

[HomeIsWhereTheGinIs]

I've just heard a woman in our local asking her friend whether or not it'd be OK to take her DD (currently suffering from full-blown chicken pox) out to play in the park. Despite her friend looking shocked and saying no, that the reason children are sent home is so they won't infect others, she responded that her child was bored at home so she was going to do it anyway. I'm heavily pregnant and actively trying to avoid the pox (several nurseries around us have full-blown epidemics) but thinking about it, there are people worse off than me. Anyone immunosuppressed and some of the elderly really shouldn't be exposed. AIBU to think that this woman is incredibly selfish to take her child out and about because it's bored when it's sick?

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

lljkk So glad your life is so easy that you don't have to worry about a little inconvenience like immunosuppression. Some of us do and it's very U to knowingly take an infection child out.

[elliejjtiny]

phantom DS1 might have infected people before his spots came out. DS2 probably wont have because I kept him in from when DS1's spots came out on the advice of his paediatrician and preschool.

[BudsBeginingSpringinSight]

Its breath taking stupid and ignorant to deliberately take a child out with CP, its so sad people feel they can do it.

so very sad.

[BudsBeginingSpringinSight]

. Elderly: Coming into contact with the CP virus again acts like a vaccination for shingles. Actually when children are vaccinated against CP the rate of shingles in the eldery goes up*


Elderly coming into contact with virus who have never had it - can die.

Death, finito..

[weebarra]

I have cancer and am immunosuppressed. Catching a bad cold is an issue for me let alone chickenpox.