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@Flick @djsumdog @adiz Can confirm.

I've had shingles. Due to having had actual chickenpox as a kid (not due to a vaccination).

Reminder: Variola major smallpox had a case fatality rate of 30%.

Yes, for any individual vaccine you have to do a cost-benefit analysis of the side effects (which they all have - I also, personally, had a bad reaction to my smallpox jab way back in the 1960s) versus the severity of the disease. But on the whole, vaccines are a bloody good thing.