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mazer.us • 74 days ago

How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/anti-vaccine-influencers-weaponized-measles-death-texas-rcna196900

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jeanjeanie.bsky.social•74 days ago

I tried listening to a podcast about the Mennonite and Amish communities but had to turn it off after hearing about the rampant sexual abuse and incestuous rape cases. So hearing them not give a shit that their child died of measles and they still urge others to not vax? Not surprised.

stretchcunningham.bsky.social•74 days ago

If a grown-azz man or woman does this to themselves, hey go for it. But it's a particularly hard gut punch when a child needlessly dies by the decisions of their fundie Christian and/or MAGA parents. And it's a mental illness when it's "not so bad" it was just one of their kids. Sick.

micaylah.bsky.social•74 days ago

Class Action lawsuits in about 20 yrs.

maximumjim.bsky.social•74 days ago

A 20% failure rate is acceptable in that household? Damn.

markelindsay.bsky.social•74 days ago

aurelias.bsky.social•74 days ago

We've lost our way...2025 and parents who live in a "1st world country" are celebrating that only one of their children died of a preventable disease. Like we don't even dare expect a better future where no child dies

bastillesam.bsky.social•74 days ago

There is a reason why child mortality in America is on a rise. Gun violence and the stuff like vaccine denialism.

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

Which is why people had lots of children in pre vaccine times, because many would not survive.

berritg.bsky.social•74 days ago

They want to criminalize abortion because a fertilized egg is somehow a baby. 🙄
So how can refusing appropriate medical treatment for a living, breathing child not be murder?

meyersteven.bsky.social•74 days ago

I have zero sympathy for the parents.

What about the kids?

I'm sorry you were born into such a dysfunctional culture, that your parents are such gullible idiots. But there's nothing I can do about it and I just can't bring myself to care about your fate.

It's just too horrible to think about.

hairbyleonard.bsky.social•74 days ago

Why is it okay for their children to take one medicine, the steroid budesonide, but not another, the measles vaccine? I'm trying to understand the logic.

hairbyleonard.bsky.social•74 days ago

Some superstition about taking a preventative for something one *doesn't* have. Like tempting fate or something? I don't know, I'm trying to understand the mindset.

badhorse.bsky.social•74 days ago

No because covid antivaxers were BIG on things like Zinc and Vitamin D as preventatives. Well and Ivermectin which doesn't actually do anything relevant.

It's specifically vaccines they have an irrational distrust of.

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

I never quite understood why they distrusted vaccines but trusted ivermentin, which can have terrible side effects.

badhorse.bsky.social•74 days ago

Or Hydroxychloroquine which is downright bad for the health of almost everyone who takes it.

I think it's just Internet brain rot and people addicted to feeling like they're outsmarting "the system" even when being incredibly dumb.

beefygoblin.bsky.social•74 days ago

Vitamin a as a prophylactic is just as silly for measles as it is for hiv. But here we are.

sacreliciouscow.bsky.social•74 days ago

https://adc.bmj.com/content/77/3/191.short

proudlondoner05.bsky.social•74 days ago

Not sure what your point is. It’s pretty rare for children in the western world to be Vitamin A deficient, which is what that study is about.

madaleine.bsky.social•74 days ago

I grew up in a republican family & can tell you, this anti-vaxx stuff started to rot their brains when Jenny McCarthy started the "vaccines cause autism narrative". Up until then, our parents were fine w us getting vaccinated. They are an easily manipulated population & accept unverified "facts"

hairbyleonard.bsky.social•74 days ago

Vax skepticism used to be coded left more than right, though it's changed completely, and it's an insidious thing. The "vaccines cause autism" theory has been *thoroughly* debunked but the idea persists that vaccines are impure, evil concoctions that cause all sorts of medical conditions.

masspatriot.bsky.social•74 days ago

Maybe they’d like it if their kids got polio, too?

exfeeb.bsky.social•74 days ago

Guess old john f was a one-off. The rest of them are absolute loons

off-man.bsky.social•74 days ago

Just let Darwin evolution theory do its thing... It will be great for the entire world if these conspiranoid morons get killed by those diseases they consider "normal" and remember that all the extremist propaganda promotes this ideology!
Let the NAZI's die!

bastillesam.bsky.social•74 days ago

Don't abandon your humanity. Children needs to be protected in any society.

off-man.bsky.social•74 days ago

This is just the consequences of a country where education is a privilege and not a right...
Americans can't understand that their "glorious" US of A is just a 3rd world country with loads of billionaires and continue to vote for morons and evil corrupted politicians!

off-man.bsky.social•74 days ago

When children are born in a family of indoctrinated morons they will become the victims... Nothing can be done in a society that refuses scientific knowledge over pseudo-science and snake-oil "cures"...

banneduser.space•74 days ago

Anti-vaxxers are a public health hazard. They are the enemy. They want to see their kids dead from preventable diseases and they to infect other people's kids too. We would be better off splattering those death cult worshipping bastard parents under a trolley.

guyjin.bsky.social•74 days ago

1) each time these diseases spread among the unvaccinated, there is a chance they mutate into something that can affect the vaccinated.

2) maybe I'm naive but I do not believe there are 6 year old Nazis.

off-man.bsky.social•74 days ago

Of course the child was an innocent victim of their family stupidity, but specially since the pandemic that the extreme-right propaganda is indoctrinating the dumb into believing all their crap instead of science as knowledge is the enemy of indoctrination into ignorance.
The US created this problem

phunkyfifth.bsky.social•74 days ago

urtoez.bsky.social•74 days ago

I am aquiring this meme for my collection. Thank you, sir!

gaulofkanata.bsky.social•74 days ago

Omg...
This is f****g brilliant

imadogchasingcarz.bsky.social•74 days ago

“Also, the measles are good for the body,” the girl’s father said

Science illiterate trash.

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

As long as you don't die first.

imadogchasingcarz.bsky.social•73 days ago

They're stuck in the "what doesn't kill me..." mentality.

Guess what? I didn't die in a car crash. It didn't make me stronger, it fucking crippled me.

schmolaf.bsky.social•73 days ago

soleadyonis.bsky.social•74 days ago

No. They are Mennonite, they don't believe it vaccines. Nothing new

jimbotexan.bsky.social•74 days ago

The last paragraph, where the podcaster perhaps momentarily understands that his actions have consequences in the form of dead or sick children, is utterly terrifying. Because he just pushes through it. I can't get into that headspace. I never want to.

bia.somosnma.com.br•73 days ago

"the anti-vaccine nonprofit group founded and led until recently by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health and human services secretary"

You guys are so fucked!!!!! Protest!!!!!!

wlewisiii.bsky.social•72 days ago

This is why criminal felony child abuse and murder charges need to happen in these cases. These parents need a decade in prison on State charges.

bobbradley.bsky.social•74 days ago

The conflict between religion and science has been going on since before Darwin, but when children die, it needs to stop.

bobcatsizzle.bsky.social•74 days ago

Fuck'em

Let them reap what they sown and rot for it.

geordielands.bsky.social•74 days ago

Hope that does not include the children

youwriteuniversity.bsky.social•74 days ago

Their children did nothing to deserve death. It's not just saying screw the parents, there are kids involved.

pinkears.bsky.social•74 days ago

Darwin at work.

smallbirb.bsky.social•74 days ago

People were denying Covid was killing them to their last breath. This kind of cultish, irrational thinking needs some kind of strong deprogramming.

wishda.bsky.social•74 days ago

People like this are why shunning was invented.

turkturkleton.bsky.social•74 days ago

This site was something to see back then. Still is but during Covid especially.

https://reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward/

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

It's a little unfair to expect parents whose child just died so unnecessarily to accept how easily it could have been avoided and try to rationalize it and absolve themselves of guilt.

krystolla.bsky.social•74 days ago

Every vaccine denier has to have their personal version misinformation outlined but there isn’t the same repetition of vaccine facts.

eliteprogresscheck.bsky.social•74 days ago

Did anyone notice that the mom and dad share very similar features? Mennonites are notoriously inbred due to the isolation and shallowness of their gene pool. Not a great group to expect intelligence from.

maximus1.bsky.social•74 days ago

There is no level of hell hot enough for the people promoting and profiting off pushing vaccine disinformation.

coffindodger.bsky.social•74 days ago

abiegie.bsky.social•74 days ago

Just so frickin sad.

milsma.bsky.social•74 days ago

https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/chd-tv-exclusive-parents-of-child-who-died-during-texas-measles-outbreak-speak-out/

banneduser.space•74 days ago

"At the hospital, staff asked whether the child was vaccinated with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. The parents said she wasn’t."

THESE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID!! Those fuckin parents are responsible for killing their child.

ddelorme.bsky.social•74 days ago

They are just nasty people

paloskioho.bsky.social•74 days ago

This is the most shocking thing I have read all year.

mitla96.bsky.social•74 days ago

The parents are Mennonites, they don't usually seek out conventional medicine until things are critical.

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

They accepted budesonide, an inhaled steroid usually used for asthma but won't accept a vaccine.

mitla96.bsky.social•74 days ago

That "Dr Ben" they trust sold them on that as a "breathing treatment". It's sad because all the kids got the measles and the Mom,so 1 out 6 died-like the old days. They will forever believe their child would have survived if she had gotten a breathing treatment and castor oil.

phxphlash1944.bsky.social•74 days ago

MAGA IDIOTS! They also probably bob for apples in their toilet!

jefffowler.bsky.social•74 days ago

Infuriating

hannumatilainen.bsky.social•74 days ago

Hmm like I said somewhere else earlier, make leprosy great again

mindy25.bsky.social•74 days ago

If you are stupid enough to kill your own children, that's one issue. The bigger issue arises when those measles hit the hospital, and newborn unvaxxed babies get exposed. Vaccines protect the public in general. They should be mandatory.

mapperwocky.bsky.social•73 days ago

This whole article makes me screaming angry. All those kids suffering because the parents are acting like 🤬💩🤡.

molynj.bsky.social•74 days ago

Hmm ... Her death was the will of their imagery friend.

barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social•74 days ago

The child’s father said, “Also, the measles are good for the body…measles boosts the immune system and wards against cancer.” Holy shit. Measles causes IMMUNE AMNESIA - wiping out immunity to pathogens obtained through prior exposure! https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

Only one problem, when you're dead that no longer matters.

barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social•74 days ago

Death by measles also prevents cancer.

dj1au.bsky.social•74 days ago

RFK will prevent a lot of cancer deaths- by killing them before they live long enough.😏

barbbanfieldrn.bsky.social•74 days ago

Bingo 🎯

edhirsch.bsky.social•72 days ago

KILLER MAGA MEASLES!
death, dying, and the brainwashed RFK Jr cult
🧵thread
https://bsky.app/profile/edhirsch.bsky.social/post/3lkyts4s56s2c

chemborg.bsky.social•74 days ago

Christianity is a death cult, so this tracks.

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