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CHD and Kennedy have relentlessly spread dangerous misinformation about the safe, lifesaving MMR vaccine, including that it causes autism (it does not) and even deaths (it does not).
So much better that she just died rather than got autism and then died.
Crazy that anti-vax has even a fig leaf of personal liberty as a defense. Yes, you do have the right to make your own choices and you can be a negligent parent in 1000 different ways.
But this isn't even close to a personal freedom issue. You being a dumb piece of shit is a direct threat to the rest of society. YOU don't get to make the personal choice to kill MY child.
It should be simple for these serious diseases: unless you have a certified medical issue preventing it, you have to get the shot. Fuck any objection (personal, religious, whatever...). If there's some negative side effect or a bad vaccine batch, you get generously compensated for our collective societal fault in harming you.
Strap them down and jab them, let them bitch and moan about everyone's children being alive and healthy later.
Either that or, more gently, ban them from public spaces if they haven't had the vaccine -- schools, public administrations, grocery stores, malls, churches...
People like this should be treated the same as parents who drive their kids without car seats and seat belts.
How this isn't abuse is beyond me. They'll screen about personal freedoms, but what about that poor child's personal freedom.
I hate that we let parents treat kids like property.
She's figuring out why families 200 years ago had a dozen kids.
What a shitty mother. I feel sorry for her other children.
The denial after the fact is a necessary coping mechanism. Otherwise, they will suffer from the guilt of killing their child.
Which they absolutely did.
They'll probably come around to the realization in time, but we won't see that interview.
Prolly not
That's a 20% mortality rate. If vaccines had anywhere near that level of mortality risk, all the streets of every city in the world would be absolutely fucking littered with bodies. You have to be one dumb motherfucker to think this is some kind of vindication for your antivax position.
Well, the existence of these people are why the trolley problem is a problem at all. They think it's more ok for 5 people to die by them not doing anything than 1 people dying instead because of their involvement.
Wild that you're just allowed to be a child murderer if you claim the magic voices in your head say it's okay. You'd think that the surviving kids would be saved from this kind of fucked up ideology, but in the U.S. we have concluded that it's more important for people to be delusional.
Mine got the shots. They are ALL fine. And alive I might add. Fucking ghoulish cunts, protect your kids dammit.
Poor child.
There was another story the other day of a father whose unvaccinated daughter died of measles, and he said he was still glad she didn't get the vaccine because he didn't trust what's in it to be safe. These people's minds are not functioning rationally.
They're chronically stupid.
Terminally stupid in this case.
More like homicidally stupid.
The most generous way I can look at this is to say she's in denial. Five unvaccinated children with one dead. Apparently a 20% fatality rate (in her family) is not enough of a reason to get the vaccine.
The most generous way I can look at this is she's a danger to her children, and they should be removed from her. Rejecting vaccines should not be a choice, just like choosing to starving your children should not be a choice.
Math is not their strong suit.
Neither is science. These are the kids who set in the back of the class and got D’s and got passed by the teacher because they didn’t want to deal with them for another year.
In other words, irresponsible parents who should not raise kids in the first place.
Not just irresponsible, delusional. At what point does delusional thinking causing a child’s death turn into neglect or child abuse?
Woman who doesn’t use conventional birth control is shocked to discover this one weird trick.
They cracked the code to the elusice 30th trimester abortion.
These fucking people are ghouls.
Edit: Christ, those times when I fail as a parent, all I need to do is read about this kinda bullshit. Holy hell. I cannot contemplate this attitude to the preventable death of one of my kids.
She probably claims to be "pro-life" too
Gotta keep having kids if you're going to let them die like this or disown them when they turn out wrong. Arrows for the quiver of god, or whatever. That poor child deserved to live a full life.
... This isn't an onion article. That's horrifying.
Pretty sure vaccines make measles more than 80% survivable so she’s missing out
Murderer.
I work with a guy who is an extreme germ, a phobia. He always wears latex gloves even when he eats his food but yet he refused to get the Covid vaccine him and his wife are not even 30 yet and they have nine kids. I believe four of them have some sort immune deficiency problem, as well as one or two with a learning disability yet it’s all part of God‘s plan FYI he is also a big-time Mormon.
Fuck it, i need to know. What does being a homophobe have to do with eating with latex gloves or no covid shots?
Sorry mistyped, i meant germaphobia.
[he's] an extreme germ, a phobia.
I love the new version where now he's straight up just a singular bacterium with strong opinions, and that's freaking you out. Pls don't change it again
Oops lol!
Fear that their food or covid shots might've been handled by someone attracted to their same gender? Hoping it's just an unfortunate typo and they meant germaphobe.
Wow how selfish can you be? What a horrible mom
From there, the interview took a turn. The mother said that after the death, her other four children developed the disease. It "must have been petrifying," CHD's director of programming, Polly Tommey, who was leading the interview, said. "Yeah, it was. It was hard," the mother replied. But then, the family had the children treated by an alternative practitioner, Ben Edwards, who has grown popular in their West Texas community amid the ongoing measles outbreak. Edwards administers unproven treatments, including cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide, which is used to treat asthma and Crohn's disease.
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Most children do recover from measles, regardless of whether they're given cod liver oil. The fatality rate of measles is nearly 1 to 3 in 1,000 children, who die with respiratory (e.g., pneumonia) or neurological complications from the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"i don't even like my kids"
Welcome to the new America. It breaks my heart.
Mother of child that died of measles in the USA in 2025 is anti-vax. Insert Pikachu
I remember how sad I was to see my infant cousin die from sids. My poor aunt never recovered from the anti depression drugs. Meanwhile this pos is going w/e. Treating human like a turd.I feel sorry for the other kids. They watched their sibling die and know for sure mom will do the same for them.