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ickplant@lemmy.world to Actually Infuriating@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’

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Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’

www.independent.co.uk

ickplant@lemmy.world to Actually Infuriating@lemmy.world · 2 days ago
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Mom whose 7-year-old has brain swelling from measles still wouldn’t vaccinate
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EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain
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  • Æ@piefed.social
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    Well that’s one thing Idiocracy didn’t predict. People becoming so anti-intellectual they cant even keep their own children alive. However I whole heartedly believe these people considered energy drinks as a remedy, “because of the electrolytes”.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    Can we finally already just make vaccines obligatory, with NO religious exceptions? I don’t care about your stonage fairytales, I care about not dying from preventable illnesses just because you need to have the brain of a 5 year old.

    The ONLY exceptions to vaccines should be for medical reasons and they should require signatirues from two different doctors at least

    Fuck these religious idiots

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    And I would have locked her up for attempted homicide

  • aggelalex@lemmy.world
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    Prison. Immediately

  • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca
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    You need to deal with these people.

    • rushmonke@ttrpg.network
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      It’s hard to get people to trust society when society exists to serve the ruling class.

      Once in a while, conspiracy theorists are proven right and that’s all that’s necessary to sow doubt in the system.

      If the average person recognized that average people are farm animals, then it would be easier to reason with those that reject average rhetoric.

  • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz
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    Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

  • PissingIntoTheWind@lemmy.world
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    Sorry little dude. But fuck her.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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      Butt ducking could’ve avoided this situation entirely.

  • TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world
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    You should go to jail for abusing your kid over a conspiracy theory.

    • minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world
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      The jury of her peers in the district will be 20 points below her current IQ.

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        Dead fish and a shovel?

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    The anger I have right now for this fucking child abuser. FUCK. This mom should be the one fucking dying, not this kid. He doesn’t deserve this.

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      Oh, from the headline I thought the mother got hospitalized. Too bad it was the innocent child.

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    It’s because the thought that she made a mistake that would kill her son would literally be brain breaking.

    These people will not learn lessons this way. You cannot logic people out of a position they did not logic themselves into. This speaks to a greater distrust in institutions which should worry folks a lot more than this, if they value what they have left. And there are very valid reasons they have these opinions even if their expressions of mistrust are misguided.

    Please know that when these institutions fail though, it’s fertile ground for a thousand new futures. Don’t stop fighting.

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      She literally blames god for it not her own actions.

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        Yes, that is part of this.

        https://www.psypost.org/conspiracy-theorists-and-religious-people-are-more-likely-to-commit-a-conjunction-fallacy-in-contexts-related-to-their-worldviews/

        https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/finding-new-home/202208/why-belief-in-conspiracies-is-sometimes-adaptive-and-logical

        https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29081831/

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    I have a relative who has refused to get her three children vaccinated because she’s convinced that’s what causes autism. Guess what? Her youngest child was just diagnosed with autism anyway. So now she says it’s because she (the mom) was vaccinated as a child, and somehow that made her son autistic. There’s no reasoning with unreasonable people.

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    Darwin Award.

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      Unfortunately, that’s for when you kill yourself like an idiot, not when your parents kill you from neglect.

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      She already procreated.

      • rushmonke@ttrpg.network
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        Won’t matter if her offspring doesn’t continue the lineage.

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        There’s no exception for killing your child before they procreate?

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    “We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina

    Of course not, its not gods fault, its hers and her husbands.

    They should lose custody of their kids. This is callous disregard for their safety and reckless endangerment. This should be treated no differently than addicts that leave drugs around for their kids to get into.

    and if she so vehemently anti-medicine and anti-science, why the fuck are they in a hospital.

    • Son_of_Macha@lemmy.cafe
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      She’s not blaming Santa or the Easter Bunny either…

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      That hospital comment is a good catch. I am all for personal choices but for an anti Vaxer I assume you need to be off into a community disconnected from the rest of social interactions with people that use and get vaccinated from state medical facilities. I’d say the same for fully cruelty free! Vegans, but in their case, the smell of bacon won’t expand their brain.

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        always goes along similar lines

        “I dont trust medicine/science! we don’t vaccinate!”

        “Oh my god, my child is dying! QUICK CALL AND AMBULANCE”

        “Oh My god, you want to use medicine to save my child!?! NO, HOW DARE YOU PUT EVIL MEDICINE IN MY CHILD”

        “Oh, its too late now to do anything? Okay, I guess now you can use medicine on him…”

        “Oh My God! My child died! EVIL DOCTORS AND THEIR SCAM MEDICINE!”

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          “Oh my god, my child is dying! QUICK CALL AND AMBULANCE”

          Sorry, I don’t believe in the internal combustion engine.

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    Less vaccines = more brain damage = more Republican voters.

    We will have lead back in gas by 2028.

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      Bring back asbestos!

      • Alaknár@sopuli.xyz
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        Boy, do I have great news for you!

      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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        I also want lead back in my milk god damnit! It made it taste good! I’m tired of this nanny state bullshit!

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        Make

        Asbestos

        Great

        Again

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        In food!

        • Viceversa@lemmy.world
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          For infants!

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    This is straight-up child abuse.

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