For the unvaccinated for covid 19. A short question.

[Muskrat]

I got the chicken pox when I was 17. Missed my first week of college classes because of it. I have not had the shingles vaccine. While I know it is painful and many people get shingles…many do not. I also have not had a flu vaccine since 2014. Did the first rounds of covid vaccines….but the strain not being near so virulent it no longer scares me. People need to talk among themselves or to their dr’s about what is good for them as individuals.

 

[gruntlabor]

... People need to talk among themselves or to their dr’s about what is good for them as individuals.

As you say, but I don't believe my doctor's opinion is his own anymore, he's dictated to from above.
For example, my husband's cardiologist received a warning from Medicare. An excessive number of prescriptions had been issued. The cardiologist took him off his gout rx (prescribed by his endocrinologist). You can imagine the results.
Anyway, today doctors have rules to follow. Not guidelines. Rules

 

[January]

I repeat: I have never had chicken pox. Period. The only way I could have got infected was by caring for my mother's shingles (putting lotion on it) when I was eight.

Perhaps. But almost everybody our age group has had CP, possibly from shingles in the situation you describe or exposure to other children, possibly spreading it before they have symptoms.
Some people have no symptoms - but they still have the dormant virus, hence can still develop shingles later in life.
the only way to know for sure is serology - ie blood test to check for antibodies.