To think that absolutely nobody needs to take their chicken pox child to Primark?

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I was in Primark this afternoon and heard a lady having a conversation with a child of about 3 or 4 "Look at your chicken pox sweetheart they're getting much worse aren't they? That's ok, we'll be done with our shopping soon". Said child has a good dozen spots on her face. 20 minutes later, her, mum, brother and grandma are still strolling around Primark. Now, I'm last of the paranoid parents and I can see that there may be occasions when a parent may need to take a chicken poxy child out but to Primark with a crowd, Really?

jusit selfishness oh i want to go shopping!

tough stay at home or get your friends/family to babysit

School run is essential, running to the pharmacy for calamine lotion is essential, picking up bread, milk and loo roll is essential. Fucking primark is not essential!

They are being really selfish and nasty. The risk to pregnant or immunocompromised people they encounter! The poor child probably just wants to be home cuddling on the sofa!

It could be that they weren't aware of the risk of passing on chicken pox. There are so many things parents need to know that nobody tells you.

Not unreasonable. I have £10 that says this parent was one of the antivaxx brigade.

There's not ever a good reason for going to Primark!

I'd rather gouge my eyes out with a spoon than go in to one. Same for TK Maxx. Way too busy. All the time.

Actually harder most of those things are not essential. Internet shopping or ask a friend, family member or partner to help. A child with CP should be isolated. End of.

I got chicken pox at 27, never knew from where. It was awful... got complications within four days of the first spots appearing and spent a couple of weeks in an isolation unit in hospital with pneumonia. Took me a long time to recover too. I live in a flat and shared the lift with a chicken pox child a few weeks back. Made me shudder.

I'm quite sensitive as we've a close friend who is currently in recovery from leukaemia and had she been shopping, which she could have been, would have been at risk. I was so tempted to comment to them but decided it might not be the wisest idea.
PS I love a bit of Primark

People are so bloody careless about chicken pox and it really annoys me. My eldest had it at 3, he was in terrible pain for days, bed bound for a week and incontinent for that time. Then my baby caught it. We were housebound for 4 weeks. I was stir crazy, but wasn't going to go anywhere until both were well. Recently an acquaintance of mine decided to take her granddaughter shopping - whilst covered in pox. Utterly selfish and stupid, especially as we have a mutual friend who is on medication that suppresses her immune system and has been told that she can catch chicken pox again and if she did it would be very serious. Both my children have permanent facial scarring from it, I wish I'd known about the vaccine in time.

When I was a child the GP told my mum that I wasn't allowed to leave the house for 10 days. So I didn't. My grandma babysat me. I survived the ordeal. WHY would anyone do this??? What a fucking inconsiderate idiot.

People love me that are why my 5 month old is riddled with it

Oh and we've barely left the house for two months. I've got cabin fever but I suck it up. Haven't taken him out at all.

And there was me mortified at taking pox ridden toddler on school runs - he was fasten in buggy, rain cover on (it wasn't raining) and tried to avoid everyone

When DD had chicken pox and I had to go out. I left DD in the car (She was 6) easily in view. Ran in, ran out. Luckily, I only had to do that once.

I've done 3 loads of chicken pox and it was fairly painful especially when I had 2 who weren't even slightly ill with it but we stayed home because there was just no way that I was going to risk infecting anyone intentionally

I've shared this before but when DS1 was little we went to a birthday party. A boy there had obvious chicken pox and was contagious. His mum spent the whole party crowing about how she was tough on her kids, didn't let them wimp out at the slightest sniffle, was doing the rest of us a favour by letting our kids catch it young etc. It was one week before university exams and I was in the final year of my degree. I spent that week hoping and praying that nothing would happen to DS and I'd make the exams. And that's before you even get to the potentially fatal health complications for vulnerable people. I was tempted to leave but DS wanted to stay and I figured it was too late, he'd already been exposed anyway. He was fine and I graduated that summer, phew.