Well, a vaccine will do little to help us... lol the robots however, even if
they don't work, will be super-cool.

The problem is that there's a whole lot of people who never contracted
chicken pox as children.  My daughter is one.  She's 26, and a
juvenile diabetic.  She has a son and a step-son at home.  What's the
likelyhood of her getting chickenpox now?  Great.  I knew of an adult
who never got the pox who contracted it in adulthood.  It went into
his lungs and he died a slow death.  Kaiser HAS offered chicken pox
vaccines; don't know if they're doing it now.  If I recall correctly,
the pox vaccine is not a one-time shot; you have to have multiples to
get you up to speed.

Chicken pox, as you all know, is kin of the herpes virus.  I had
chicken pox as a kid.  As a young teen, I had a REALLY bad case of
shingles on my right ribs.  It was agonizingly painful, yet itchy.
Then, there I was in my 30's with another form of "the Pox" in my
crotch.  I wonder....was it actually passed on by another human being
(wrongly accused?) or, was it in my system my entire life, brought
forth in it's wrath by stress?  So sayeth some!  Me?  I accused
ex-fiance...  I did go over it, and ruled out childhood chickenpox and
stress-due-to-peer-pressue-shingles as a teen as the cause of my
vaginal outbreak at 30-something of full blown herpes.
HOWEVER...anything's possible.  It seems very interesting to me, that
the less stress I have in my life, the fewer outbreaks I have.  I have
the "normal" stress.  Mix in a man who has "issues" or "baggage," it
sets me off.  Being alone is a good thing, considering.