A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.
The death was a “school-aged child who was not vaccinated” and had been hospitalized last week, the Texas Department of State Health Services said Wednesday in a statement. Lubbock health officials also confirmed the death, but neither agency provided more details. A news conference is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon.
Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment, nor did Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s office.
That poor kid. Easily preventable if they didn’t have stupid parents. At what point can we hold the parents accountable?
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Pretty sure they are suffering from their stupidity already.
The only one that suffered, and paid any consequences, was that poor kid. They should be charged with child endangerment, and probably manslaughter, since this was completely avoidable.
I think in Texas it would be criminally negligent homicide, but I doubt the conservative justice system there will punish anyone for intentionally not preventing a deadly disease.
Nah, it wasn’t a fetus so this is just a perfectly normal case of God’s Will.
I’m pretty sure they’d say that god’s plan, like every other bit of knowledge that might improve their lives, is unfathomable.
Despite most of the rest of the world fathoming it just fine.
I’m pretty sure there’s prayers and talks of God’s will involved too.
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…
Not everywhere in the us, but Texas, where this is happening currently, seems especially bad, at least in counties outside Dallas and Houston area.
This could easily happen in parts of SoCal or anywhere with big Mennonite or Amish cults too.
In a sane system, at this point.
We’ve done that up here, for parents trying to treat childhood illnesses with distilled water and kale smoothies. Parents went to jail, grandparents are raising the child, if I remember right.
When can we hold Bobby Brainworms accountable?