Shingles. An unfortunate truth. A suspected lie.

These are interesting commercials. I don't doubt for a moment that shingles is very painful, so I got the shingles shot even though I never had chickenpox. (My doctor assures me you can get it anyway.) So I feel comfortable knowing that's one less thing to worry about. What I don't believe is the claim on these commercials that 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. If that were true, we would all know dozens of people who had shingles and, at 70-years old, I have only known three. So, I suspect this is a misleading claim by another greedy pharmaceutical company to increase their profits through the use of scare tactics.