A woman who held a “Pox Party” for her son and anyone else crazy enough to endanger their children’s lives, has a made a huge social faux pas – she forgot the loot bags. Teresa Claputo joined a Facebook group promoting Chicken Pox Parties last month and decided to host one herself this week. Chicken Pox Parties involve parents bringing their children to an infected child’s house with the hopes of giving their child the disease. The parents believe it is safer for their child to get the virus “naturally” and risk complications such as pneumonia, sepsis, dehydration and host of others all of which can land a child in hospital and even lead to death (most parents just op for getting the vaccine and avoid the risks all together).
“Everything was going great” explained Claputo, “children were hugging and coughing on each other, trying to spread the disease. But then it hit me: I had forgotten to get the loot bags.”
You can imagine Claputo’s horror at her oversight. She had done everything right so far: she used a naturopath and homeopath for her child’s primary care and had just hosted a party to voluntarily make her child sick…everything a good mother should do.
“I started to panic. I was so embarrassed” said Claputo.
Loot bags are a crucial part of the Pox Party, as the hosts are required to put lollipops licked by an infected child in the bag.
“She really dropped the ball here” said Moonphase Dreams, mother of 4 year old Meadow, a healthy child brought to the party. “I brought my daughter there to get a vaccine-preventable disease. I expect her to get it.”
At the time of this article 4 of the 6 children who attended the party had come down with chicken pox. Two of them were hospitalized. Party on.
