"Throwing "'swine flu parties' in an attempt to get immunity against the virus while it is a fairly mild form is not a good idea, doctors say."
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
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Or you can just kiss a mexican :)
I can remember my mom turning me out to go play with my neighbor who had the chicken pox. I suspect Tom Scocca would do the same.
This sounds a heck of a lot like that shocker circulated among the gays a few years back about HIV "conversion parties" at which one aspired to "catch the bug."
It is now apparent that this was basically the "don't flash your blinkers at an oncoming car that doesn't have its lights on because it's a gang initiation and they'll follow and kill you" of its day.