{"id":66867,"date":"2026-08-17T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66867"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:12:06","slug":"chickenpox-vs-shingles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66867","title":{"rendered":"Chickenpox vs Shingles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Dr_Suzanne_Humphries_On_Joe_Rogan.jpg\" alt=\"Dr Suzanne Humphries On Joe Rogan\" width=\"520\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Dr_Suzanne_Humphries_On_Joe_Rogan.jpg 520w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Dr_Suzanne_Humphries_On_Joe_Rogan-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a hidden truth beneath the story of the chickenpox and shingles vaccines that no vaccine \u201cexpert\u201d will ever tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Suzanne Humphries: \u201cIn the old days, we would all get chickenpox.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was never a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>By preventing chickenpox in kids, it created more of a much worse disease.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Humphries: \u201cChickenpox, we used to get continuously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was very rare for adults to get shingles before the chickenpox vaccine came out, extremely rare.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut since then, the rate of shingles in adults and children has skyrocketed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because adults who were exposed to children with chickenpox received a natural immune boost that kept shingles in check.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s further evidence that childhood chickenpox prevented other future illnesses, including cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists knew that licensing a chickenpox vaccine carried significant risks of worsening other diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Before it came out, one of the world\u2019s leading varicella experts also noted that chickenpox was long considered too mild to justify a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>Big Pharma was well aware of all these concerns.<\/p>\n<p>But they marched ahead with the chickenpox vaccine anyway.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, they\u2019ve reduced a disease that was never even a problem, and worsened other, far more serious, illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>These are the kinds of things that you\u2019ll never hear from vaccine \u201cexperts,\u201d pharmaceutical companies, or the media.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why we launched Shot Week.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we have gone through and exposed the lies used to justify Big Pharma\u2019s vaccines, from measles shots to mRNA Covid shots.<\/p>\n<p>But the full web of lies that has been spun to justify vaccines is far too much to unravel in a few posts on X.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019re promoting one book that breaks down the entire decades-long propaganda and censorship campaign.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a must-read for every new parent.<\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/standforhealth1\/status\/2088676693972017511?s=20\">https:\/\/x.com\/standforhealth1\/status\/2088676693972017511?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a hidden truth beneath the story of the chickenpox and shingles vaccines that no vaccine \u201cexpert\u201d will ever tell you. Dr. Suzanne Humphries: \u201cIn the old days, we would all get chickenpox.\u201d It was never a big deal. Then came the vaccine. By preventing chickenpox in kids, it created more of a much worse &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=66867\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chickenpox vs Shingles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66869,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66867\/revisions\/66869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}