Yeah, but at least he didn't have autism!
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How's all that winning working out for Texas?
Not so loud about their beliefs when they backfire, eh?
I hope this kid's parents suffer terribly. This child depended on them to keep it alive, literally the most fundamental part of being a parent, and they failed miserably. It's the worst form of betrayal: the kind that costs lives. I wonder what Jesus would have to say about that?
I don't wish suffering on them. Their child is dead. They're suffering enough. They're likely to just hold stronger to whatever beliefs they have and blame whatever bs reason they can think of.
I hope they learn. They learn that there are truths and things in this world that are real, and everything isn't some messed up conspiracy theory. That you can challenge others beliefs as long as you also challenge your own.
The fact that their choice to not vaccinate contributed directly to their child's death is a hard pill to swallow, but let's hope they swallow it all the same.
You legitimately have too much patience.
In so far that anyone can deserve to suffer, these pieces of shit do.
Sorry for the kid. Maybe the parents will also learn the legal side of "criminal neglect". They simply murdered their own child.
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.
These morons think God's will controls everything, apparently it didn't occur to them that God also intended for humans to create vaccines.
"Capitalism created vaccines." - The Average "Enlightened" Centrist
Only if the parents are brown.
If white, "it was gawds will".
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
Congratulations Texans! You did it!
If the child could medically get vaccinated, the parents murdered their own kid. You don't get to be a parent and get something like vaccines wrong.
What a fantastic thing for the parents to experience! I love that they will have to live with the fact that their child is dead of a completely preventable disease purely because of their own decisions.
These are Mennonites. Preventing gods gifts of disease is the devils work.
My late father used to smoke at least a pack a day. He did that for almost fifty years. When he was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer he said, and I quote: "We'll never know why I got this".
People can be really good at dodging responsibility even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
What's sad is, they won't even change from this.
That would require admitting they were wrong.
Stupidly insecure people are incapable of admitting fault unless they literally have no other choice in order to be accepted by their peers.
Another sad aspect to this is that often the parents think they are doing the right thing. They're wrong of course. Some people have mental issues that lead them to "magical thinking". I know some people who are anti Vax, and are very health conscious in all other respects. They're just ignorant. One of the founders of permaculture in Australia wrote about being against the covid vaccine during the lockdowns here. I used to live in one of the villages he designed, and the people and their beliefs were mostly lovely. But they have a distrust of science that makes them vulnerable to dangerous ideas.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is like "It's one child Michael, what could it cost? 10 dollars? "
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We did it, America! From the brink of eradication all the way to killing children in Texas in around a decade! We're number one! We're number one!
I swear I might actually punch someone if I hear them talking about kids dying "with" measles vs. "from".
I think that word substitution is a necessary part of the logic of the people who see people other than themselves as inherently less than them and deserving of suffering if their health would cause them even the slightest inconvenience...for lack of a better word I'll call these people "the cullers".
The cullers see the deaths that occur from disease as just being "nature taking its course". It's only a small step from "healthy people don't die of this" to "they deserved their deaths because they're weak" and then a slightly larger jump to the even more horrifying "we should kill off the weak on purpose in the name of efficiency".
At least they didn't get autism.
It's kinda hard to maintain eye contact when you're dead, though
How do you die from measles? I mean what actually causes death? Is it pneumonia?
Fever.
Does this qualify for a Darwin Award?
No, because the child most likely didn't make the decision to stay unvaccinated for themselves.
This is just flat-out murder.
The idiots parents definitely at fault. Poor child.
I feel sorry for the kid, but at the same time, I hope the funeral is the most painful, drawn out event for their parents, that everyone who comes lets them know exactly whose fault it is that their child is dead. I hope it's a learning experience for them.
Unfortunately, no one in the antiVax is going to change their minds until it hits them very close. That kids first cousins might, maybe, get vaxed. More likely, they'll blame it on the hospital, or the flu.
Even if they're willing to admit that the vaccination would have saved his life they're going to be torn getting their other children vaccinated because of the possible negatives they think could happen. In their view it's a slight chance of death versus guaranteed autism.
I bet if you go ask them right now they'll point out that colds Have death rates associated with them. Just another avoidable unavoidable tragedy.
They'll refuse to be reasoned with or educated. These people were literally taking horse dewormer and an attempt to avoid vaccines.
I don't think that wishing them extra pain is particularly useful. We're all mad at them but realistically they're just undereducated, obstinate, and programmed.
People who don't get vaccines are stupid.
They're not going to learn their lesson; they're going to think that it was a random act of God without explanation.
It is not an uncommon occurrence for evangelical extremists to tell you to be grateful your child or whoever is dead because they get to be with God. These people are mental.
As someone who grew up with this shit, after my sister died in an accident this is exactly what these nutters say.
Same here my friend. My little brother's funeral had me raging.
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