How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old's measles death
Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories.
When I read the title I assumed maybe she got measles even though she was vaccinated or something, but no. She was unvaccinated, got measles, and died. And her parents are saying measles isn't as bad as people are making it sound. Absolutely insane. It killed their daughter, and because it didn't kill ALL of their kids, it's fine actually? I wonder what percentage of their kids it would need to kill before they admitted maybe it was serious? These people are sick, unfortunately with something way worse than measles.
I'd call them medical luddites but even back then they had primitive vaccinations against smallpox, plus the luddites did at least have genuine concerns (jobs). Being anti-medicine is mind-boggling. Even if it stems from anti-pharma, of which the profit motive is genuinely concerning, this anti-medicine mentality does nothing to address it and only harms themselves and others.
It's because these people are poorly educated. This group of Mennonites is very back woods thinking. There are zero ways they will ever trust vaccines.
You ask what percentage of kids it will take? 0% All of their children could die and they would chalk it up to God's will and get busy on making more.
Most people cannot comprehend just how backwards some of these groups are but think of life early 1700s. That's what you are dealing with. No one can convince these people anymore than someone can make the sun set in the East.
There is nothing that can be done about these people. Hell some don't even speak English, they still speak the old low German language. Like this couple they speak a broken mix between 1700s German and English that's developed in that area.
I cannot stress this enough, these people are never going to vaccinate. The cost of life is completely irrelevant in this aspect.
Insanity. I didn’t believe it, so I read the article and… yeah the mother says it’s not that serious and the father claims it’s good actually, what on earth? So it killing one of their kids makes it… not that serious? Idiots.
I know at this point we're literally just saying the same thing, but yeah. The family is trying to turn an unvaccinated child dying of a disease into basically a positive PR piece for the disease that killed her. Even if you are antivax, reading a parent say that something that killed their kid isn't serious should raise concern. People have kids that suffer/die from niche things and spend the rest of their lives dedicated to raising awareness/fighting for legislation to regulate something that only affects like one person every decade, and these people can't be bothered to act bothered. Gross, gross, gross.
They're coddled, entitled crybabies. Modern people have no idea how good we have it, in spite of all our problems.
The very annoying things right now:
an increasingly vaccine-hesitant country
Come on, Comcrap. Loud doesn't mean popular.
Trash "news" service.
The most terrifying thing about this moment in time is that simply being the victim of something shitty means that predators will descend upon your weakened body and fling it about for political points until nothing is left in your wrinked husk but shame and the empty hole of fake opportunities to further whore yourself out just a liiiiiiiitle more for one more pay day, one more event, one more podcast, one more YT video, one more hot take, one more anything before the news cycle finally slam dunks you into the trash forever.
