it's ok, everyone. it was god's plan.
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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That poor kid. Easily preventable if they didn't have stupid parents. At what point can we hold the parents accountable?
In a sane system, at this point.
When the parents are irresponsible, most other nations step in and make the responsible choice for their children in their place, whether the dumb parents like it or not.
But in the US, the state is even more irresponsible than the parents.
What a sad, sad country it has become...
When can we hold Bobby Brainworms accountable?
bUt MaH rELeeJun!
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That child died because their parents are fucking morons. They should be held accountable.
Yup. Or if you don't vacate yourself or your children you shouldn't be allowed to travel, go to events, and you get medical care in a tent outside
As a person with a weakened immune system, I am totally with you on that.
But, you can’t restrict my freedom! I should still get the right to free travel AND the right to die of fully treatable disease, on top of my right to spread them to you! Fuck yeah, America, freedom, 2nd amendment!
Edit: and God and Trump!
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Queue the childs parents: If only we'd known how dangerous measles was we'd have gotten our child vaccinated!
If only this country could’ve been founded by people who knew the heartbreak of losing a child to a preventable disease.
In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if the child died under it: my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen. -Benjamin Franklin
Or, more recently, the author Roald Dahl, who lost a daughter to measles in 1962.
In the letter he described his personal experience: "Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its course, I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it." She became disinterested in playing and within an hour was unconscious.[1] "Within twelve hours she was dead" he wrote.
But not from experts, we don't trust those!
Nah, they'll wish there was a way to protect their child from dangerous childhood diseases and that the fascist medical system failed them.
Ah, also another classic.
A big storm approaches. The weatherman urges everyone to get out of town. The priest says, "I won't worry, God will save me".
The morning of the storm, the police go through the neighborhood with a sound truck telling everyone to evacuate. The priest says "I won't worry, God will save me".
The storm drains back up and there is an inch of water standing in the street. A fire truck comes by to pick up the priest. He tells them "Don't worry, God will save me."
The water rises another foot. A National Guard truck comes by to rescue the priest. He tells them "Don't worry, God will save me."
The water rises some more. The priest is forced up to his roof. A boat comes by to rescue the priest. He tells them "Don't worry, God will save me."
The water rises higher. The priest is forced up to the very top of his roof. A helicopter comes to rescue the priest. He shouts up at them "Don't worry, God will save me."
The water rises above his house, and the priest drowns.
When he gets up to heaven he says to God "I've been your faithful servant ever since I was born! Why didn't you save me?"
God replies "First I sent you a fire truck, then the national guard, then a boat, and then a helicopter. What more do you want from me!!??
I've been urging my wife to use this parable on her elderly parents who keep refusing our help. They sold their house about 20 years ago and used the money to buy an RV so they could travel around the US... while they waited for the rapture to take them up to heaven.
They blew all their retirement savings and now they're living in a trailer park trying to deal with a multitude of medical issues for which they don't have insurance. Because they never expected to live this long. And they keep saying they're waiting for god to send them a solution to their problems.
dang, sorry to hear you're having to go through this with her parents =(
That is literally Noah's ark from the POV no one talks about
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Murder charge for the parents. But of course that kinda thing can't be prevented. /s
Evolution in live
The danger of a measles outbreak is especially scary if you have a baby, because they can't even get this vaccination until 12 months old. Similar if you're immunocompromised, I'm sure.
This is why herd immunity is so important.
Oh jeez, that is terrible. I cannot imagine.
For the love of Pete, get yourself and your loved ones VACCINATED.
Hopefully the poor parents can find some comfort in the fact, that at least the child wasn't infected with autism...
This is really sad for an easily preventable disease. Below the fold, they mention this (which a lot of people won't see without reading the article)
The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in West Texas, where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected due to people traveling between towns for work, church, grocery shopping and other errands.
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At last, my child is safe from the perils of autism!
Abortion of a sperm isn't okay but aborting a kid years later is okay per REP-Red
Hope the parents' lives are completely ruined now. But they're probably already busy on the replacement. That's what they want to bring back: a world where a woman has to carry 18 pregnancies to term in hopes of having one or two that survive to adulthood. Good times.
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