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A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.

The death was a “school-aged child who was not vaccinated” and had been hospitalized last week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday in a statement. Lubbock health officials also confirmed the death, but neither agency provided more details. A news conference is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Sorry for the kid. Maybe the parents will also learn the legal side of "criminal neglect". They simply murdered their own child.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

They didn't murder they own kid, it was God simply telling them it was their kid's time to go. I mean that with 100% sarcasm, but there are people out there who believe just that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

These morons think God's will controls everything, apparently it didn't occur to them that God also intended for humans to create vaccines.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 hours ago

"Capitalism created vaccines." - The Average "Enlightened" Centrist

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Only if the parents are brown.

If white, "it was gawds will".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Or "It was The Markets will" if you're a centrist or capitalist. Their belief system works pretty much exactly the same, just a different god. Centrist so-called atheist enablers are not excused from this equation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

The chances of America charging these parents is zero. And this poor kid is just a herald of of things to come - people dying of preventable, contagious diseases because morons and kooks think vaccines are some kind of left wing conspiracy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Could they be arrested for this though? Getting vaccinated isn't mandatory. They made the very poor decision to not vaccinate their child, but is it neglect?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Vaccines are such a charged subject for political reasons (that felt so frustrating to type).

I try to find something analogous. If I had the option to remove a poisonous plant from my home, I didn't because of personal choice, and my child ate the plant and died, I would consider it neglect.

Legally however, not even judges will agree with each other on this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The fact that it is not mandatory should not even register with anyone with half a brain cell.

The US is just so stupidly backwards and going even further in that direction that it's even an option to not vaccinate your kids.

All that's going to happen is that this country will push out all the intelligent people who will want to leave for somewhere with some intelligence and the oligarchs will be left to rule over a blatantly stupid populace who force themselves into slavery

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

RFK Jr wants to cut back on medical research and other countries have already said "come over here to continue your work" so yeah, we'll definitely see a lot of people leaving.