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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)
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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 29 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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.