A close patriot friend of mine who is a real estate agent has been harassed by jabbers about getting his shots. He refuses and they eventually let up. Those VERY SAME PEOPLE who were harassing him before, are now asking him for the names of the supplements he recommended them to take instead of jab. One of them even went as far as apologizing to him for giving him a hard time. His FB is full of karens who used to post about how people are selfish for not getting jabs, complaining about how they are "SICK AGAIN! THIS IS THE WORST COLD AND FLU SEASON". No idea it's the jabs.
My wifes boss and his wife are jab cunts. Both husband and wife have been sick non stop for weeks. 5 year old son got the jab and now has rashes (bloody ones) all over his body and is constantly sick. She works from home and in the mornings (we share an office) he sounds like absolute shit in their meetings. Lately he's been repeating himself and forgets meetings they had the night before.
On the radio today the DJ, (random station can't remember it), the woman who sounded like she was in a hospital bed that's how bad her voice was, thanked her colleague for taking over for 5 days because of how sick her and her son were.
The season has barely started.
MY OPINION - SHINGLES IS CONTAGIOUS, and can 'get you' if you are in a stressed, or emotionally exhausted condition, regardless of age.
FWIW - When I was about 12, my Aunt who was 56 developed shingles after her husband died of an unexpected heart attack. We visited her of course and kept her company during this trying time, but a few weeks later I got my own shingles outbreak. It manifested on the left 1/2 of my back from the spine to my side, from the middle of my back, up to my shoulder and down the back of my left arm to the elbow. It was thick with blisters and so itchy and painful. I had to take oatmeal baths and wear a sling on my arm. Why did I get it? Well, I have an idea.
Caveat: Our particular family was undergoing some extreme emotional distress with financial difficulties, one family member was really sick with asthma, my older brother was going through a terrible divorce and came back to live at home, Aunt's husband's death, etc. Being the youngest and most obedient, I was the 'whipping girl' for all of my mother's frustrations. No good deed went unpunished. So, my distressed state clearly left me vulnerable and when exposed to my Aunt's shingles outbreak, it got me.
Further interesting point: 20 years later when I gave birth to my first child, he had a café-au-lait hyperpigmentation birthmark in the exact place on his back, shoulder and left arm to the elbow. Talk about transferring injury or trauma through the DNA!
How to explain this?
Lynn McTaggart's The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe discusses (among many other things) Rupert Sheldrake's "morphic fields" which describe self-organizing properties of biological systems. "He believes these fields . . . are different from electromagnetic fields because they reverberate across generations with an inherent memory of the correct shape and form."
I don't know what to think of that, or of McTaggart generally, but I don't dismiss it out of hand, either. Bernardo Kastrup's The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality -- consisting mostly of ten articles published in peer-reviewed academic journals -- has really opened my mind up to things I would have never considered.
Excellent. Thank you for that. I'd never heard of that.
Very informative comment. Sorry that you had to go through so much unpleasantness to learn what you did, but thanks for sharing. I never thought about shingles being contagious. Several people we know have had it recently -- younger than the normal range for getting it, so I suspect they're vaxxed.
Yes, I imagine their deteriorating immune system is leaving them ripe for an opportunistic viral attack. Stay away from them, for the time being, will you?
To add to your story:
Someone I know had shingles. The kids who were around the person developed chicken pox.
This was before the chicken pox vax.
They are in the same family, of course. Here are some additional points:
Although shingles and chickenpox are caused by the same virus, they are not the same illness. Chickenpox usually affects mostly children and is a milder illness, whereas Shingles results from a reactivation of the previous Chickenpox exposure, as the Chickenpox virus lies dormant in the body forever after.
HERE'S THE NEW DATA I found online: "If you have Shingles, you can spread the Varicella virus to people who have never had exposure or vaccination for Chickenpox. On the first exposure, they will likely develop Chickenpox, not Shingles."
MY OBSERVATIONS: If you've ALREADY had Chickenpox and are exposed to Shingles, you will then get Shingles, if your immunity or stress is in a less than ideal condition.
And also: It takes from 10 to 21 days after exposure to either version of the Varicella virus to develop a new outbreak.