• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
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    This is why you don’t vote idiots into the white house. Imagine this quality idiot dictating policy.

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      How this isn’t abuse is beyond me. They’ll screen about personal freedoms, but what about that poor child’s personal freedom.

      I hate that we let parents treat kids like property.

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    The denial after the fact is a necessary coping mechanism. Otherwise, they will suffer from the guilt of killing their child.

    Which they absolutely did.

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    CHD and Kennedy have relentlessly spread dangerous misinformation about the safe, lifesaving MMR vaccine, including that it causes autism (it does not) and even deaths (it does not).

    So much better that she just died rather than got autism and then died.

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      As if autism is the worst thing you can have, come on… That’s actually offensive af of them to even say. I have autism and I’d rather have it than be dead, any day.

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        There are definitely days I’d rather be dead, but that’s not the autism’s fault, it’s morons that believe in this shit.

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    The most generous way I can look at this is to say she’s in denial. Five unvaccinated children with one dead. Apparently a 20% fatality rate (in her family) is not enough of a reason to get the vaccine.

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      The most generous way I can look at this is she’s a danger to her children, and they should be removed from her. Rejecting vaccines should not be a choice, just like choosing to starving your children should not be a choice.

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        If she got bit by a rabid dog, she’d get the vaccine in a heartbeat. Anti-vaxxers are only anti-vaxxers out of pure spite for science and the government. That’s literally it. Willfull ignorance and contradicting personalities in defiance of the status quo. If the disease has a low risk of them or their loved ones dying, they’ll take the risk of not taking the vaccine, because they suck at math and it can’t possibly happen to them and their family.

        If the risk of death is 100% (like in rabies), they’ll take the vaccine, because they know deep down they are fking wrong about vaccines and they don’t want the 100% chance of death.

        Btw, If you ever debate with an anti-vaxxer irl, asking them if they’d take the rabies vaccine once bit by a rabid animal does fuck up their stupid logic quite effectively.

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        Neither is science. These are the kids who set in the back of the class and got D’s and got passed by the teacher because they didn’t want to deal with them for another year.

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    There was another story the other day of a father whose unvaccinated daughter died of measles, and he said he was still glad she didn’t get the vaccine because he didn’t trust what’s in it to be safe. These people’s minds are not functioning rationally.

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      Iirc that was a Mennonite. Not that or makes things better, but they’re a weird cult, even for weird cults. Electric Amish.

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        Measles is insanely infectious. People have no clue the fire they’re inviting into our lives. Even vaccinated people are at risk.

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          Yes, so often we see people online saying “Ha ha, let the morons get COVID/measles/bird flu/etc!” They don’t stop to think about the risk to everyone else, particularly vulnerable people some of whom can’t get vaccinated and rely on herd immunity. In all these years still that lesson doesn’t seem to have been learned. I suspect the people saying this are healthy young people who haven’t really considered how different from theirs some people’s lives are.

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            Many of them are likely just annoyed and use it as a coping mechanism. It’s understandable. I find it easy to believe that when a group of people wants to kill and or deport you, your family members, friends, or even your neighbors. That resentment will build and ultimately people will say they want things to get worse faster so it opens eyes faster and we as a community start fixing the problem sooner. For example it’s why I have at times wanted Trump to ignore/piss off the courts more once he already has violated people’s rights since only violating some people’s rights people are coping with just fine. A good example of something that would harm and possibly kill many people before things were fixed is social security. Many people would say we would be fine with it at this point if social security checks just stopped going out. It’s not because we want those people to die. It’s because we want an act like that to happen sooner rather than later. It would directly impact the largest majority who supported this administration. So something so blatantly obvious is harder to get blame shifted, and the people who only say to themselves “am I better off now” would have to admit to themselves they are not. Opening the door to possibilities of a rapid change through grander support. The bill of rights has been ignored, the constitution has been ignored, so many believe the only reason they are “playing” that the government is still in function is to ensure they have replaced all the people they need with sycophants so when the mask does eventually shatter, it is to late for anyone to really do anything. All media outlets controlled, all Government entities (including elections), all large corporations, the food, water, energy… All controlled to make it so we can be tamed and drivin like sheep.

            In a dictatorship we are all slaves with no rights, people right now are still believing we have rights because the facade.

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      Not really. She didn’t learn shit.

      She gets to hold her dead child who could have had a full life thanks to modern medicine and pretend like she’s the victim.

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    Wild that you’re just allowed to be a child murderer if you claim the magic voices in your head say it’s okay. You’d think that the surviving kids would be saved from this kind of fucked up ideology, but in the U.S. we have concluded that it’s more important for people to be delusional.

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    That’s a 20% mortality rate. If vaccines had anywhere near that level of mortality risk, all the streets of every city in the world would be absolutely fucking littered with bodies. You have to be one dumb motherfucker to think this is some kind of vindication for your antivax position.

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      Well, the existence of these people are why the trolley problem is a problem at all. They think it’s more ok for 5 people to die by them not doing anything than 1 people dying instead because of their involvement.