•••••••BREAKING••••••• The measles crisis in West Texas has claimed the life of a second child. The 8-year-old girl died early Thursday morning of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h... - ThreadSky

wordswithsteph.bsky.social • 3 days ago

•••••••BREAKING•••••••

The measles crisis in West Texas has claimed the life of a second child.

The 8-year-old girl died early Thursday morning of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/health/measles-death-texas.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9k4.aM4s.HKnsYrcn6GIO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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roosir.bsky.social•3 days ago

worried about my granddaughters down there...

swest57.bsky.social•3 days ago

I really didn't know these caliber minds were still here. Bizarre to not give your children vaccines. Jim Jones Much? THIS is abuse of power.

jmmert.bsky.social•2 days ago

What is Greg Abbott doing during the TX measles outbreak.

mommamia.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is unacceptable.
It’s child abuse.
The science that developed vaccines had eradicated measles.… Stupidity Gave the virus new life.

iampilgrim.bsky.social•3 days ago

deadly viruses have no borders..Republican actions will kill millions worldwide.

yesacr.bsky.social•3 days ago

I thought in West Texas people fell in love with a Mexican girl

jonathangallant.bsky.social•3 days ago

They were warned. They ignored and mocked the warnings. Now she's dead.

And more to come because hell will freeze over before they ever admit they were wrong in Texas.

mags69.bsky.social•2 days ago

🤬🤬🤬

bighuggybear.bsky.social•3 days ago

wehearvoices.bsky.social•3 days ago

Willing to lose a child because of ignorance. I call child abuse!

tntart.bsky.social•3 days ago

These parents should be tarred and feathered for risking their kids lives to stand on their lopsided soapbox!! Vaccinating your kids is the same as giving them food and clothes, you’re protecting them!!! 🤬🤬🤬

luluenglish.bsky.social•3 days ago

Criminalize axwomen and doctor for a miscarriage. Deny treatment that saves her life. But anti vaxxers. Killing children is perfectly acceptable. Think about what you are hearing. Think.

scottishmum.bsky.social•3 days ago

So sad 😥

mgkm.bsky.social•3 days ago

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

reubencopley.bsky.social•3 days ago

Murder.

scparks50.bsky.social•3 days ago

💔

deanbooth.bsky.social•3 days ago

All 50 states and territories have laws requiring proper child safety seats for infants and children. A friend was prohibited from leaving the hospital with her new baby unless she had an approved car seat.

We need to do the same for vaccinations.

"BUT MY FREEDOMS!!"

kelseymaries.bsky.social•3 days ago

💔💔💔🙏🏻🕯️🕊️

mrssmells.bsky.social•3 days ago

Unacceptable

egandale.bsky.social•3 days ago

Republicans and fox did this. Their science ignorance and politics convinced them to harm their children.

whatchaknooow.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seems like Texas Is the epicenter of stupid.

excannbiz.bsky.social•3 days ago

reason #1,001 of why TX will never be visited.

flyingwedge72.bsky.social•3 days ago

Natural selection is proper in this instance.

experimental22.bsky.social•3 days ago

I’m sorry for the child who is an innocent victim of our America.

rdl8192boyz.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's become clear to me that more and more people will die due to the various Cabinet picks the Republican Party and the trump administration have put in place. Mind you, their jobs are to protect all of us, not to kill us.

hate2badgeryou.bsky.social•3 days ago

Don't worry, RFK will be there with some vitamin A supplements and *checks notes* cod liver oil.

It's an absolute fucking disgrace that this malicious crank is the head of Health and Human Services.

Senator Bill Cassidy, an actual MD, thought this was a great idea. Call him: https://www.cassidy.senate.gov

parisking.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cult members are letting their children suffer and die. This is child abuse.

motherbluebird.bsky.social•3 days ago

A preventable death- where are the “pro lifers” now? Crickets

desmojeff.bsky.social•3 days ago

Darwin awards are going to have lots of cases to pick from this year.

docdavehawaii.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kennedy returns to the scene of the crime to gloat.

https://flip.it/mugHUA

politicaljunkie.bsky.social•3 days ago

Shame on them all.

bluewo.bsky.social•3 days ago

Welcome to the 50’s in shithole America 🇺🇸💩🕳️

philoof.bsky.social•3 days ago

Vaccinate your children
Save your children

davek67.bsky.social•3 days ago

philoof.bsky.social•3 days ago

osprey1460.bsky.social•3 days ago

Just get yourself & your kids vaccinated. Most of us were vaccinated shortly after birth.

cmar0561.bsky.social•2 days ago

Another completely preventable death of an innocent child. Her parents should be arrested for criminal negligence.

beachbums79.bsky.social•3 days ago

I hate fucking republicans.

grtlakesinfolady.bsky.social•3 days ago

May that child’s memory be a blessing. And may her parents learn a hard lesson from this experience.

philmorton24.bsky.social•3 days ago

And the state of Texas is doing nothing to prevent future cases and deaths. Also, the federal government could mobilize a vaccination strike force and do the job, but they won't.

panthersfan-afr.bsky.social•3 days ago

💔💔😡😡
📌

metrochimp.bsky.social•3 days ago

I think the best way to understand all this is a giant, somehow apocalyptic level tantrum:

"I DON'T WANNA BE NICE TO GIRLS!"
"I DON'T WANNA TO HAVE TO PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH!"
"I DON'T WANNA GET MY SHOTS!"
"I DON'T WANNA WEAR A MASK!"
"I DON'T WANNA LISTEN TO EXPERTS!"
"I DON'T WANNA FOLLOW THE LAW!"

bizhizz.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is Darwinism at its most devastating.

lorenabobbitttime.bsky.social•3 days ago

Christian nation of hate and stupidity.

concerned2.bsky.social•3 days ago

Arrest the parents

ktimes2101.bsky.social•3 days ago

🥲sad

jdinjc.bsky.social•3 days ago

this is horrible. Her parents should be held accountable. This is child abuse. Vaccines save lives! There is data to support this.

sandrac46.bsky.social•3 days ago

Died from a disease that could have been prevented by a safe, effective, easily obtainable vaccine. smdh

bethproudhawk.bsky.social•3 days ago

Add to that idiot doctors, no follow up, and bad Hospitals leads to a perfect disaster scenario.
West Texas has big problems. Think before you move.

grammyblue1.bsky.social•3 days ago

When will these people learn?

mom6.bsky.social•3 days ago

Letting your child die to a completely preventable disease should be classified as child neglect.

darcdn.bsky.social•2 days ago

THEY.VOTED.FOR.THIS

komue.bsky.social•3 days ago

Kennedy jr. possibly will say: she wasn’t strong enough
😭

plannedtheride.bsky.social•3 days ago

Horrible situation.
Check out this head scratching bit of news👇
(I guess this indicates the 2nd set of parents is also ok with their child's death?)
https://bsky.app/profile/carlquintanilla.bsky.social/post/3lm5cadxfc22x

kymmykym.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Hey Kennedy murdering fuck! Don't show your face up at kids funerals! You did this. Watch out

ohcanadienne.bsky.social•2 days ago

And her parents should be charged with reckless endangerment of their child.

Period.

God bless that baby girl. She didn’t deserve the Fox News world.

stephielynn204.bsky.social•3 days ago

So damn sad, and I won't be surprised if it's another deranged "God's will" family. That shit drives me absolutely insane. Even if religious, they were brainwashed to a point where they can't even fathom God being the reason vaccines exist.

ivananewgrave.bsky.social•3 days ago

Drinking the party of life Kool-Aid.

beth-sue.bsky.social•3 days ago

JFC

msmissyatl.bsky.social•3 days ago

CHARGE THE PARENTS! If women are now being arrested for miscarrying, it only makes sense. This is child neglect. Period.

chichi60.bsky.social•3 days ago

I would call this child abuse

uisce-beatha.bsky.social•3 days ago

Darwin is taking care of business.

huckleberryfriend.bsky.social•3 days ago

These people have spare children? Like in the cemeteries in rough country where you see graves of children who died within days of each other from a contagion they shared?
Their god is teaching them a lesson?
Joe Biden smote their child?
Beyond my capacity to imagine.

anotherusernom.bsky.social•3 days ago

Trump and RFK Jr caused these deaths.

xboudica.bsky.social•3 days ago

Put another one up on the score card for Freedom Freckles 👊🇺🇸🔥

How long until it mutates and even the vaccinated are no longer safe?

bertschotanus.bsky.social•3 days ago

I assume they all say ‘thank you’ to RFK Jr.!

gameofcrones.bsky.social•2 days ago

And this only accounts for *confirmed* cases. I'm quite certain that a lot of these anti-vax parents are just quietly keeping their measles-suffering kids home and never get them seen or tested.

I really hate this timeline

patti3333.bsky.social•3 days ago

This is Heartbreaking and so unnecessary
People please get vaccinated

darbyz.bsky.social•3 days ago

Gee, if there were only some way to prevent these senseless tragedies.🤔

rosevillecindy.bsky.social•3 days ago

RFK Jr says that’s acceptable. It wasn’t his kid.

pauletteparis1.bsky.social•3 days ago

😡🤬😪

ac1435.bsky.social•3 days ago

Double or triple the number for the truth. They are lying. During Covid, Texass doctors were told not to indicate that deaths were covid related. You did it or you lost your job. We started having lots of heart related deaths.

tryn2bkind.bsky.social•3 days ago

💔💔💔

chrisneyland.bsky.social•3 days ago

The Republican death cult will claim that her death was all part of God’s plan.

tellmeitsgonnabeok.bsky.social•3 days ago

Another totally self inflicted crisis, but unlike the economic hurt, this one is going to kill children. And the people causing it have been telling me they’re pro life.

drgeophysics.bsky.social•3 days ago

RIP: Hard learned lessons in public health, written in tombstones, are arrogantly denied and more tombstones record this horrendous failure.

deb-brinker.bsky.social•3 days ago

Well that’s just sad, unnecessary and predictable. VACCINE is the only way to prevent measles and all of the diseases on the vax schedule. Listen to those of us who grew up in the 50’s!

ramfdt.bsky.social•3 days ago

“It really wasn’t that bad”-her parents.

5thonthe4th.bsky.social•2 days ago

Kennedy actually attended the funeral of an unvaccinated 8 y/o Texas child who died from the measles. He’s reportedly revised his measles stance to now support and recommend measles vaccinations.

statman-stu.bsky.social•3 days ago

If people only listened to real news & got their medical information from reliable sources…

Frankly, a few child deaths from measles is NOT going to convince right-wing people who ignored advice on vaccines for Covid, which cost 200-250,000 lives lost in lower vax counties across the USA. SAD!!

darcdn.bsky.social•2 days ago

That's very true. Sadly very true!

jaanagolf.bsky.social•3 days ago

FUCK TEXAS, the shithole of #USA!

iampilgrim.bsky.social•3 days ago

If something is not done about JFKjr. billions will die around the world.... deadly diseases have no borders. In the end GOP will have blood on there hands..they already do.

oldladyscreaming.bsky.social•3 days ago

*RFK Jr. *their

harrietmoses64.bsky.social•3 days ago

We eradicated this! Now kids are dying again. Idiocracy ain’t just a movie. It’s our American life

janetlousie58.bsky.social•3 days ago

Arrest the parents.

mia1916.bsky.social•2 days ago

Morons!!

lsumtx.bsky.social•2 days ago

The same people who are ok with modern transportation and technology think they can pass on modern medicine for their children. It’s so stupid!

dr-opus.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm wondering how long it will take before this administration says, "No, she didn't die *because of* measles, she died *with* measles. It was the pulmonary failure that killed her. So it doesn't count."
Just like they did/do with Covid.

coldkase.bsky.social•3 days ago

We should build a wall around Texas.

shortstuff54.bsky.social•3 days ago

And were her parents stupid enough to stand by their anti-vax commitment?

rosiegirl63.bsky.social•3 days ago

My heart breaks for her but fuck her parents

tscanada.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm 62, had both measles in the 60's. I just got the MMR vaccine as I coach kids and there are too many kids with religious exemptions in my area. This is needless but here we are!

acuratorseye.bsky.social•3 days ago

And the innocent suffer due to anti-vaxers and conspiracy theories

titanessthemis.bsky.social•2 days ago

And stupid parents that they kids are dependent upon to protect them. The children have no voice in this.

enthusiastfacts.bsky.social•3 days ago

Mandatory doses of Bleach, UV LIGHTS, Ivermectin, Cod Liver Oil, Vitamin A, Hydroxychloroquine will now be the official Tя☭mp recommended nationwide treatment plan that will be personally overseen the Honorable Health Secretary.

Additional treatments of Adderall, Ketamine, and Coke are pending.

ajleppel.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is on the senators who voted to confirm that nutjob.

mclt70.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be frank, I don’t think children dying unnecessarily is a concern of most conservatives. Kids dying in mass shootings in school couldn’t persuade them why would this be any different.

nokoolaid.bsky.social•3 days ago

My heart breaks for those children. Their parents will have to live with the fact that they could have saved their child, but CHOSE not to.

stefsull.bsky.social•2 days ago

The prior one said they didn’t regret it and their daughter was in a better place. Anyway, they had 5 kids, so there are extra.

nokoolaid.bsky.social•2 days ago

OMG!!! Special place in hell for people like that

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