😢Our grandparents not only fought the Nazis in WW II, but they also fought for fully funded immunizations because they watched children die, or develop debilitating post-infection complications due to childhood diseases. What is wrong with people?
I just don't get it.
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I haven’t read the article, have the parents been confirmed as anti-vax or was the child not vaccinated for medical reasons (which does happen, and why others should be vaxed)? I hope that’s the case. Ugh 💔
They are Mennonites. So they claimed exemption under Texas's religious exemption law, which means none of the children are vaccinated, but almost all of the adults are.
Especially after “science” aka doctors were there informing you, the internet was there so you could have researched…also a thing called libraries, where you could have researched medical journals, all letting you know to vaccinate your child. Yet you listened to who?
You know anti vaxxers are lying when they say they did research because any real source of info would have immediately disproven them. Like literally a Google search would be effective
I always hated Texas but I do feel sorry for Blue people who need to live there. Red states are the reason individualism has such a negative impact on our country.
Ooh, I know this one, because I was arguing with a lady online the other day who blamed the measles outbreaks on unvaccinated illegal immigrants. She went quiet after I shared sources about the bulk of cases being among the Mennonites 🤷🏼♀️
MMR was given at 18 months, when I ran the well baby clinic in the USAF.
Parents belong in jail, also take all their possession, if any of the medical was federally funded.
The upside is they're mostly true believers of this shit, so if we can ride it out they'll reduce their own numbers to a much more manageable state. What we do to that much more manageable state will be *their* decision, and no pity will be given.
You're starting to get it. They do want people dead. Don't forget every conservative accusation is a confession. Theyve been accusing democrats/woke of wanting to do a population reduction/kill off for decades.
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. Stupid fucks that don’t vaccinate their children. Conspiracy bullshit 100% legit! Peer reviewed science? My dog groomer told me her kids all got the autism from them vaccines! I’m scaaarrred! This is why I scream into my pillow.
Of course it was a child in Texas. Any arrests for willfully putting the child in harm?
Or was that full term, living, breathing,”product of conception” not considered a LIFE in your fucking RIGHTEOUS PRO-LIFE HANDBOOK???
It’s not the Bible, it’s YOUR IGNORANCE kills your children.
It’s ultimately the saddest that a child has to suffer at the hands of an ill-informed, likely low educated citizen that has benefited from good policy and mandates and yet they wouldn’t afford that to their own child.
What a horrible burden for any parent to carry. I hope they so strongly believed in not vaccinating their child that they can survive the anguish of their death. I am so sad these parents are facing this. Death is horrible enough, but one that is preventable is soul crushing.
I can't wait until they find a way to blame this on Bide, Kamala, democrats, immigrants, etc etc etc. Anything except blaming it on not getting vaccinated. Unreal.
So sad. I knew it would unfortunately take deaths of children for people to wake up.
Measles is not just a few bumps it can have lifelong health consequences.
Where's the article showing They're waking up? We're just on kid one. It's gonna take an entire mountain of them before they even remotely think once (to say "think twice" would just be a pathetic joke that it lands by crying and shitting itself to sleep)
Christian Nationalism or, more accurately, vocal support and fostering of same, is just another tool in the oligarchy's belt to continue to safeguard its control and its trickle-up economics. Christian Nationalists are useful idiots to them.
What’s odd is how they think they are the rebel forces in Star Wars. Just as if! No, little hate mongers, y’all the empire. And while the empire strikes back might be what we are living through right now, remember how it all ended. Hate never wins in the end. And this is not the end.
Sorry to the ppl in here this will offend, but between growing up in the deep south (*ew* and *sobs*) and now this current era? Religion is a mental health crisis we need to eliminate. It's time we stop considering it respectful to engage in other people's delusions of adult Santa Claus.
This is tragic, but if you’ve ever witnessed true child abuse (or seen photogenic evidence of), I’m not sure you’d apply this term here. It actually diminishes the horrific physical and mental abuse that many children DO suffer. Let’s think of other terms to refer to parents who make these choices.
Anti-vaxxers regardless of reasons put themselves & everyone in their community at risk. How selfish & ignorant. And that goes for the Mennonites who are reportedly the origin of the outbreak. If your religion endangers other ppl, your contempt is clear & your religion is deeply flawed.
Anyone with a brain in their head gets their child vaccinated-we are lucky to live in an age where vaccines are available. In 1955, people thanked God that Salk discovered the polio vaccine, and they were intelligent enough to take it. Social media has been used to lie to and brainwash people.
My thoughts exactly! The child didn’t make the decision to not vaccinate or to die. Parents made this decision- now they live with knowing they killed their child- and it was preventable!
What this boils down to is that the child didn’t have a choice in the matter. Nothing to celebrate here. And, sadly, this won’t change many parents’ minds, still.
I would agree with Darwin: 1 if it was the parents who did not vaccinate their child that passed, but this is an innocent child who had no say in this.
This is not a dig at you; it just makes my blood boil that parents can be so incredibly irresponsible.
The parents should be in jail for murder. If this was an abortion they would accuse the mother of murder so this is murder. That poor innocent baby. So much for Pro-Life.
Some unvaccinated children are so because of other conditions. If you don’t know why this child was unvaccinated it’s best not to taunt parents who have lost a child: scratch that. It’s best not to taunt parents who have lost a child. Be better.
We lost a child in my family. It was devastating. The only thing that kept me on Earth, was my husband. The world could have been a peaceful place with proper healthcare. Now it's becoming a third world shithole.
Is it really up to me and you? Isn't that the whole idea of having representation at the government level?
But we will be skeletons before anybody in the GOP stands up to the bitch and stops the massacre that's already started against our own citizens who have not gotten a very good education.
Honestly, I'm not going to do shit about measles outbreak. The only thing that we can do is disrupt and resist. Right now I make the calls ,not that it has done any good, and I send the emails and voice my opinion as loudly as I can. I'm just waiting for a time and a date to show up.
But short of assassination or at least putting that clown in cuffs and trying to right all the wrongs he has done after the fact,I don't know what else to do about it either do you?Although I'm lucky to be in a blue state, the reds are riding pretty high right now.vax still required here for school
Don't hold your breath. These ghouls will make sure they are vaccinated. I remember how many republicans were questioning the legitimacy and efficacy of the covid vaccines while being vaccinated themselves. They urged people not to get it just because they hated Biden and Democrats
Really? Because I remember Kamala Harris saying she wasn't going to get a vaccine because the Trump administration fast tracked the vaccine and she didn't trust it. This was actually quite surprising because I consider intelligent people skeptical of vaccines and she's basically fucking retarded
I am a retired nurse. I worked in an SDA hospital in a large antivaxx community.
We had a child admitted who was very sick with Measles.
My nurse friend took care of the child. My friend died of measles. She was a single mom.
The patient (child) survived.
I'm of 2 minds on this.
If the parents opted not to vaccinate their child, they should be tried for murder.
If the child could not be vaccinated (yes some people rely on herd immunity due to allergies) the parents that opted not to vaccinate their children should be prosecuted for manslaughter.
You're blinded by your hatred and bloodlust. A child died because of a preventable cause and a parent's neglect, and people are out here saying "win for Darwin"? You need to take a break and do some self assessment. This post is mindless and disturbing; that was a life lost which cannot be won back.
Grant, that child was not an anti-vaxxer. That child was murdered. If I allowed someone to die that I could have prevented through reasonable prudent action, I would be charged with manslaughter.
No horse medicine equivalent to THAT VACCINE? They just allowed a child, BORN AND UNABLE TO MAKE DECISIONS FOR THEMSELVES, to DIE. Now not allowing proper medication to the living is no different than the abortion. That child didn't deserve or ask for death. It could have been prevented.
The NYT could save themselves some ink by leaving out the word unvaccinated. The only time a vaccination status is newsworthy is if the poor victim was vaccinated before their demise
I believe they were Mennonites who have never vaccinated, it is against their religion. Measles vaccines are widely available for all, their choice, their burden.
The tragedy is that I suspect this young person didn’t make the decision to not be vaccinated - their parents did. Those parents probably are vaccinated because their parents cared enough to ensure it was done
You know how fuckhead Trumpers always want “boots on the ground” at disasters? What are the chances RFK jr will visit the fuckhead Mennonites in a Texas following his fucking grand clan plan? Fucking zero 0!
Gov. Abbot offers prayers to the family. He should have the parents arrested for child neglect. But it's Texas where it's illegal to have an abortion because the life of the child has to be protected. But a measles vax to protect a child? It's not even hypocrisy - it just plain stupid.
Doesn't it make you good to know that Kennedy is keeping an eye on this? No actions taken, no trying to encourage parents to vaccinate their children, just let them die while the useless GQP party watches. on.
I understand the impact of this post and its sardonic nature. I also wish there was a way to get the point across with less cruelty. These people are truly suffering because they’ve been boondoggled, and the child that died was innocent.
Would it be too crass to make the parents infamous?
I don't doubt that they loved their child and that they never thought this would happen - but on the other hand, if the result is helping to debunk their ignorance and that prevents future avoidable deaths...
The wrong people die every time from anti vaccine stupidity! It shouldn’t be kids dying from measles, it should be adults who believe there’s toxic mercury in vaccines causing autism! Stupid people are not dying fast enough. They are killing the innocent with their stupidity!
Ghoulish. Like with Covid, they'll be excusing this with "pre-existing conditions" and other vile insurance language. Obscuring the reality that most of the "vulnerable" aren't steps from dying of their medical condition. Exceptionally evil to do it to kids.
I would laugh at your "Darwin" point, but this was a child that died. It was no fault of their own, just idiotic parents that allowed lies to guide their decisions.
Reality is a thing. If you don't wash your dishes they stay dirty. The refrigerator doesn't run on magic. Horse medicine doesn't cure covid. If you don't vax your kids they could die.
This isn't a Darwin punchline--the PARENTS are responsible for a child's death, not natural selection. This callousness about Darwin reeks of the kind of joking indifference we see from MAGA. We are not the same.
I can almost hear some anti-vaxxer spin on this: The parents are heroes because they stood by their beliefs, didn't bow down to tyranny and that their child died free! 🙄🤦♂️
Making your children suffer & die from preventable diseases is cruel & devastating. Anti-vaxxers, please reconsider your stance on childhood vaccines. The benefits outweigh the risks. Let your children get to adulthood & then make their own decisions regarding future vaccines.
People too stupid to vaccinate their children are having their offspring culled from the population. Will this make them wise up? I don't have a lot of hope.
The parents ALWAYS wring their hands and sob, "If I HAD ONLY KNOWN _____(fill blank with the name of a deadly, vax-preventable childhood illness) could be SO DANGEROUS, I would have vaccinated him!"
when their child is made desperately ill or dies of it.
I'm serious. Witnessed it dozens of times.
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I just don't get it.
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They need to unite and take control.
Basically Amish folks
(I wouldn't refer to an Amish person as a Mennonite to their face, or vice versa)
They live like they’re from another era.
exactly what to expect on BS
Parents belong in jail, also take all their possession, if any of the medical was federally funded.
Or was that full term, living, breathing,”product of conception” not considered a LIFE in your fucking RIGHTEOUS PRO-LIFE HANDBOOK???
It’s not the Bible, it’s YOUR IGNORANCE kills your children.
the new Ozempic.
A large number of considerate parents are forced to endure the fear caused by these assholes who are threatening the health of all children.
His charity paid 350,000 last year, 500,000 2023
Sociopaths dont care if kids die
Read what really caused Autism to increase
https://open.substack.com/pub/biggovernment/p/autism-and-vaccines?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1vj4ca
aka
UNVACCINATED
Wouldn't that be vaccinations?
Parent who don't vaccinate their kids also kill their angels' immunocompromised classmates.
But in 'Murica, freedom isn't free, right? Right.
Vaccines Protect Me From You And Protect You From Me!
#Vaccination - is the *Only Way* to achieve
'Herd' or 'Community' Immunity!
The Whole World Knows This! 🇺🇸 🌍
It’s a culling of humanity
Measles is not just a few bumps it can have lifelong health consequences.
Or just prayer?
God, or whatever help us all.
MAGA = HATE
THEY ALIGN ON HATE!
This is not a dig at you; it just makes my blood boil that parents can be so incredibly irresponsible.
𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔰 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔢 𝔳𝔞𝔵𝔦𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔶𝔬𝔲𝔯 𝔟𝔢𝔩𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔡 𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔡𝔯𝔢𝔫 !!!!!
What do you have to say?
This is only the first one
How many, before we’re done?
It’s up to me and up to you
We’ve all gotta figure this out
Liberty is what it’s about
But we will be skeletons before anybody in the GOP stands up to the bitch and stops the massacre that's already started against our own citizens who have not gotten a very good education.
The words in your posts
What you are doing is
Already more than most
We just need to make sure
To stay engaged and be prepared
For when the moment comes
We all need to be there
We had a child admitted who was very sick with Measles.
My nurse friend took care of the child. My friend died of measles. She was a single mom.
The patient (child) survived.
If the parents opted not to vaccinate their child, they should be tried for murder.
If the child could not be vaccinated (yes some people rely on herd immunity due to allergies) the parents that opted not to vaccinate their children should be prosecuted for manslaughter.
This is sad, not funny.
The child didn't have a choice.
Now MAGAts can understand.
Lucky to be alive. I had my grandparents who served in WWII ~ they took care of me
I don't doubt that they loved their child and that they never thought this would happen - but on the other hand, if the result is helping to debunk their ignorance and that prevents future avoidable deaths...
That'll change things.
But, I'm angry that people would be this fkn stupid.
And RFK in charge?
J. F. C.
Only one of the most effective vaccines we have.
That’s the whole point of this anti-VAX bullshit.
It’s to kill off the chronically ill and elderly
If we have to suffer because selfish, unlearned people insist on learning the hard way, let the chips fall where they may.
Where’s RFK Jr’s response to this?😡
He’s not going to care about this child.
Ffs
A vaccine would’ve saved this child’s life.
Totally unnecessary death.
But at least the parents got to own the libs, right?
Stupid people! I have no sympathy for you. None at all.
And so unnecessary.
when their child is made desperately ill or dies of it.
I'm serious. Witnessed it dozens of times.