Pox Party
There is a group on Facebook called 'Find a Pox Party in your area'. This group offers chicken pox infected items, lolly pops licked by sick children and q-tips and other items with sick children's saliva on them, for sale. They even advertise paypal capability for payment. Unbelievably, there are parents out there that find this preferable to giving their children vaccines. In fact there are requests for measles infected items floating around too. The act of sending infectious diseases through the mail is illegal, of course, and infecting ones children with illness in this way is most certainly abuse. I believe parents that do this may be an example of Darwin by proxy.
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Why the hell is Facebook and Paypal allowing this use of their services to go on?! There is Munchausen's by proxy, why not Darwin by proxy. My God, can we just join hands and stop the stupid?
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/07/11 at 10:42 PM
Razzle, I think you've got that backwards. Shingles is 2ed stage Chicken Pox.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/08/11 at 12:40 AM
It's all about SPAM. We try to catch it and delete it as fast as we can.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/08/11 at 08:24 AM
Go with it KDP, that market is wide open. 😉
Expat, correct as usual, shingles in the chicken pox reactivating in someone who already had it.
Bringing your children around another kid with chicken pox so as to control when they get the disease is one thing, sending away for a stranger's contaminated spit and stuffing it in your kid's mouth is another. There is no way to know what is actually on the lolly pop. The same sickos that would tamper with Halloween candy would have a field day with this. Abuse due to stupidity is still abuse, it is about the harm done.
Expat, correct as usual, shingles in the chicken pox reactivating in someone who already had it.
Bringing your children around another kid with chicken pox so as to control when they get the disease is one thing, sending away for a stranger's contaminated spit and stuffing it in your kid's mouth is another. There is no way to know what is actually on the lolly pop. The same sickos that would tamper with Halloween candy would have a field day with this. Abuse due to stupidity is still abuse, it is about the harm done.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/11 at 01:23 PM
Thanks for the link KDP, very interesting.
Chicken pops, maybe that is what they should call the infected suckers.
Chicken pops, maybe that is what they should call the infected suckers.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/08/11 at 09:51 PM
The wife took on a new 5yo student this year. She, normally, doesn't prefer working with the wee ones but this one's about as cute as a bug's ear and Wifey regale me with tidbits of the lessons.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/09/11 at 12:07 AM
What does she teach?
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/09/11 at 02:36 AM
Engrish as a Foreign Language
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/09/11 at 04:48 AM
Ah, so does that mean she has to teach Chinese first? 😜
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 11/09/11 at 06:28 AM
To read some of those passages written by "professionals" you'd think so!
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 11/09/11 at 08:38 AM
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