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.
My thoughts and prayers go to the kid’s parents.
The ones that choose not to vaccinate their kid?
Yes, those fucks. Thoughts and prayers.
Nah fuck the parents. Thoughts and prayers for the kid.
The fact that it is impossible to tell how absolutely dripping with sarcasm my comment was is a testament to how useless, meaningless and ridiculous the words (and sentiment of) “thoughts and prayers” are.
So once more for the people in the back, to the parents who essentially killed their child I send them my thoughts and prayers.
To be fair, this is a term that is still used sincerely even if it is useless
Does this qualify for a Darwin Award?
No, because the child most likely didn’t make the decision to stay unvaccinated for themselves.
This is just flat-out murder.
The idiots parents definitely at fault. Poor child.
Parents should be charged
At least they didn’t get autism.
It’s kinda hard to maintain eye contact when you’re dead, though
Not the last, unfortunately, and given MAGA voters lack of empathy for others, only those who suffer this completely avoidable loss might (or not) learn, and those who do learn will be ostracized by their fellow MAGA
Oh jeez, that is terrible. I cannot imagine.
For the love of Pete, get yourself and your loved ones VACCINATED.
Murder charge for the parents. But of course that kinda thing can’t be prevented. /s
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Too bad this spread stupidity affects those few people who cannot really get a vaccine because they’re immunocompromised.
Exactly, all these deaths are collaterals to the antivaccine movement
At last, my child is safe from the perils of autism!
We did it, America! From the brink of eradication all the way to killing children in Texas in around a decade! We’re number one! We’re number one!
I swear I might actually punch someone if I hear them talking about kids dying “with” measles vs. “from”.
I think that word substitution is a necessary part of the logic of the people who see people other than themselves as inherently less than them and deserving of suffering if their health would cause them even the slightest inconvenience…for lack of a better word I’ll call these people “the cullers”.
The cullers see the deaths that occur from disease as just being “nature taking its course”. It’s only a small step from “healthy people don’t die of this” to “they deserved their deaths because they’re weak” and then a slightly larger jump to the even more horrifying “we should kill off the weak on purpose in the name of efficiency”.
How do you die from measles? I mean what actually causes death? Is it pneumonia?
Fever.
Congratulations Texans! You did it!
That poor kid. Easily preventable if they didn’t have stupid parents. At what point can we hold the parents accountable?
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.
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.
I think in Texas it would be criminally negligent homicide
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.
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?
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In a sane system, at this point.
Not so loud about their beliefs when they backfire, eh?
I hope this kid’s parents suffer terribly. This child depended on them to keep it alive, literally the most fundamental part of being a parent, and they failed miserably. It’s the worst form of betrayal: the kind that costs lives. I wonder what Jesus would have to say about that?
I don’t wish suffering on them. Their child is dead. They’re suffering enough. They’re likely to just hold stronger to whatever beliefs they have and blame whatever bs reason they can think of.
I hope they learn. They learn that there are truths and things in this world that are real, and everything isn’t some messed up conspiracy theory. That you can challenge others beliefs as long as you also challenge your own.
The fact that their choice to not vaccinate contributed directly to their child’s death is a hard pill to swallow, but let’s hope they swallow it all the same.
Not a chance.
They’ll find a convenient scapegoat (probably trans people) and dig in deeper.
You legitimately have too much patience.
In so far that anyone can deserve to suffer, these pieces of shit do.
Saying that this child’s death was because of it’s parents decision is cutting off the chain of causality way too soon. It forgives all the grifters and the culture of anti-science.
These parents have lost their child, but they didn’t disappear, the kid transformed into a political football. People calling for “accountability” like this family got away with something haven’t thought this through. And frankly I have serious doubts that they give one tiny shit about a dead kid; they’re here to play football.
