Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’

conservatism is a mental illness.

Attempted murder gets my vote. Restraining order automatically granted between parent and child.

Just as ignorance of the law is no excuse, maybe we should think the same way about science provided three things:

1. It is very consequential when science is ignored
2. There is insanely broad consensus in the scientific community about the topic at hand
3. A scientist, in this case a doctor, tells you to do something and then you do the opposite

A parade of bad decisions against this poor kids, then they ward the end she whines about feeling helpless? You missed so many chances to be helpful

God gave you vaccinations.

Yeah... This is what MAGA looks like here.

A lot of people are confused about what's happened to my country. The answer is that votes from people like this are being counted as far more valuable than people in big cities that understand and respect science.

I'm speaking literally.

They have MORE of a weighted importance when voting.

I still wouldn't release my hand from around this anti vaccine person's windpipe and see if she understands her dumbass beliefs.

thank God he’s only brain damaged

Think of the upside: now she doesn't have to be jealous of her son's intellect.

When people use the autism excuse (i.e. "vaccines cause autism"), I interpret that as "so you'd rather they be dead than to have autism?"

I don't actually believe vaccines cause autism, but I'm not going to try and argue that with someone when there is a much simpler counterargument.

they should check the mom too.

Both parents do. Dad is on the same side. Kid's able to move after almost a month in the hospital.

They pulled him from the first hospital because, "all they're doing is giving him antibiotics, so he might be more comfortable at home," even after that hospital told them to take him to a better hospital with specialists. Then when he went catatonic at home, they took him to the family doctor, literally his pediatrician, who took one look and said," get him to the good hospital now."

The article even says that the mom played the whole 'god has a plan' shit and that the son was chosen for it, by god.

I hate that this shit is going on 2 hours (driving) away.

the other 2 had a mild infection which is usually the case for children. but ethan had the most severe form which is rare; panechephalitis and dangerous.

all bets are off an adult gets it too.

People should have to get breeding licenses.

Child abuse as well

If they weren't his parents it would be charged as murder, plain and simple.

It's because the only kids they like are orphans. Easier to manipulate.

This is also why they want pregnant teenage girls to stay pregnant and put the kid up "for adoption" instead of getting an abortion.

That, and they're misogynistic pricks who like to flex their authority over women ay every opportunity.

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

That's called negligence causing death. She admitted that if she knew this would kill her child she'd do it anyway.

This just sounds like abortion with extra steps.

Essentially saying, "I'd rather have a dead child than an autistic one."

With thought like hers, i don't think she's fit for society.

TRUMP made it extremely political during covid, and all the anti-vaxxers that were originally on the "hippie" side of the left went to alt-right wing. besides it was the movement jumpstarted by Jenny mccarthy and her husband convincing midwestern moms in the 2000s that it cause autism they took it and ran with it.(apparently i dint see anything after 2015, so they mightve stopped doing it"

All of these shitty immoral parents with "autistic" children need something to blame besides themselves, so we have invented something to blame.

The main group of people that pushed and started this conspiracy were stay at home moms, often religious. They are awful at cause and effect.

It's not political per-see, these are ideological extremist.

Because the proponents try to work through all means, including political, to spread their idiocy.

A capable government would mandate a basic set of vaccines, with medical exceptions only, and those only with a second opinion from a limited list of specially accredited specialists.

I'd say it started out as a troll, Poe's law took hold, and now it's used as yet another dividing tactic so Republicans can swindle half the country into ignoring the abuse by the ruling class.

She literally blames god for it not her own actions.

Bring back asbestos!

She's not blaming Santa or the Easter Bunny either..

That hospital comment is a good catch. I am all for personal choices but for an anti Vaxer I assume you need to be off into a community disconnected from the rest of social interactions with people that use and get vaccinated from state medical facilities. I'd say the same for fully cruelty free! Vegans, but in their case, the smell of bacon won't expand their brain.

Oh, from the headline I thought the mother got hospitalized. Too bad it was the innocent child.

Butt ducking could've avoided this situation entirely.

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

It's a rise of celebrated ignorance. These people are stupid and proud of it.

Propaganda utilized to entrench the worst scum imaginable representing the ownership class.

It's always about money and power.

Obama's election broke brains on the right; Trump and the pandemic made their position intractable.

Idiocracy

This is still unusual enough that it makes it into international news.

To openly admit you are okay with your child dying to protect your political beliefs.

Ever read the Book of Job?

This is how they're taught to see this shit.

Reading that book as a teen was one of the early cracks forming around the evangelical bullshit I was raised on.

The events of that book, and the motivations behind those events, are utterly fucking reprehensible.

he did offer them a solution, its the doctors.

Yeah, part of not having your genes pass down a generation is that generation dying out due to your fault. I would say this is 100% natural selection.

Still annoying as fuck that it has become acceptable to take such stupid decisions.

Because it’s South Carolina, where the conception of children as property of their parents is maybe more deeply embedded than anywhere else.

because as bad as it is with them, it's worse in the system

There are studies that show having contracted Covid affected people's cognitive function.

Yep. About 1% get the encephalitis right away, and about the same amount who didn't get it then will get it later.

This autism through vaccination shit has been disproven time and again, but some people keep it alive for reasons beyond comprehension. Yes, vaccinatins are not totally risk free, with the MMR vaccine being somewhere between one in a million and one in ten million IIRC, but those idiots prefer a severe medical problem up to death in the single digit percent chance.

It has historically been a requirement for school enrollment.

But guess how many of these kids are homeschooled

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.

Unfortunately not, 3 other children, 2 of which already got measles a week or two prior to the one in the article. 🙄

Source: the article

Unfortunately, I don't think we have the time to deprogram all the death cult...

She already procreated.

Unfortunately, that's for when you kill yourself like an idiot, not when your parents kill you from neglect.

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

If you were vaccinated then it's a lifelong immunity. You really only need to test immunity if you are unsure if you got the vaccine (generally done with the MMR but there's a standalone vaccine as well). Not trying to discourage anyone from testing, but if you were vaccinated when you were a kid then you don't need to be overly concerned.

It's hard to get people to trust society when society exists to serve the ruling class.

Once in a while, conspiracy theorists are proven right and that's all that's necessary to sow doubt in the system.

If the average person recognized that average people are farm animals, then it would be easier to reason with those that reject average rhetoric.

please don’t use that word. it’s a vulgar word. as someone who hs been called that all their life, I take offence.