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[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] TheTimeKnife@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You should go to jail for abusing your kid over a conspiracy theory.

[–] minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

The jury of her peers in the district will be 20 points below her current IQ.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 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.

[–] honeybadger1417@lemmy.world 30 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 22 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

“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.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago

This is straight-up child abuse.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 21 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Less vaccines = more brain damage = more Republican voters.

We will have lead back in gas by 2028.

[–] FE80@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Make

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Great

Again

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

For infants!

[–] Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 7 points 7 hours ago

Good job killing your son you stupid piece of shit.

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

I would still report this terrible woman to CPS.

[–] splashgarden@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 hours ago

Not that vaccines can cause autism in the first place because that's not how autism works, but is this really so much better than autism? Are they so scared of having an autistic child that they'd rather risk their child dying? It alarms me how much people misunderstand such a common condition to the point they'd rather have a dead child than an autistic one.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 21 points 9 hours ago
[–] typicalDude778@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They should be charged with murder

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

the boy isn't dead and hopefully he wont be for a long time, hopefully 65 more years or more

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

They should be arrested for child neglect.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago

I bet he probably would have wanted it

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Reminder that you can have your measles immunity tested as an adult, and get a booster if needed, the latter for free (for now, until MAHA fucks that up too).

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

How is vaccination not mandatory? Oh, the US, right...

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 14 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I attended a conservative US school in the 2000s, in a conservative state. For all the pot stirring uber-Christian parents did, for all the racism, sexism, elitism and raging against even the littlest diversity event, kids just got vaccines. They didn't ask us if we wanted them, we just got them and there was zero fuss from parents about it.

You heard about (and I personally knew some) homeschooled kids, but mentally we lumped them with Amish, "far away" and keeping to themselves.


...Hence this wave of anti-vaxxing is just bizzare to me, even from someone that came from antivaxx land. I'm not sure how "mandatory" it is these days, but it wasn't always like that.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 9 hours ago

It has historically been a requirement for school enrollment.

But guess how many of these kids are homeschooled

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Smallpox, Malaria, then Religion.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

Fun fact.

In China, it is illegal to indoctrinate children in a religious faith. They are required to be 18 years or older, before they can voluntarily choose to attend a service.

Religion is regulated like alcohol and cigarettes

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[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh ok this is kinda like the "tylenol causes autism" situation.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

We should really be discussing if people who refuse to believe in medicine should be receiving medical care. Instead of a hospital she should be visiting her shaman about that swollen brain.

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