"This is a heartbreaking loss, and no words can capture the pain of losing a child. My sincere condolences go to the family during this profoundly difficult time,"

If I could I would kick every antivaxer right in the face because of this.

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[+] 71 points 1 year ago (10 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    maybe they will learn from these mistakes

    otherwise natural selection will take its course

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    maybe they will learn from these mistakes

    Nope.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    “My kid is dead but it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.” Wut.

    Well, I guess at least that child has been saved from the scourge of autism or something? Those people shouldn’t be parents.

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  • [+] -39 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Children under five, pregnant individuals and people with weakened immune systems are at the highest risk from measles infections.

    Source: The damn article if people took the time to read it.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    Yes. And measles is so contagious and deadly that the only way to protect those groups is by vaccinating enough other people. This is why measles vaccines have been such a huge focus for the past 50+ years.

    And that is also why antivaxxers are directly responsible. Their willful ignorance and self-entitlement exposes these vulnerable groups to harm.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Most people have read more than this article can hope to explain.

    Pointing at the most vulnerable and saying thats why they died from it is crazy when we can prevent it from happening at all with a vaccine thats been around for longer than I've been alive.

    If it wasn't for idiot anti vaxxers we wouldn't be hearing reports of measles killing people more and more.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    Those groups rely on herd immunity to prevent infection in the first place. Measles is so virulent that the threshold is 94% of the population. The population as a whole is under that threshold now because of anti-vax dipshits. They are directly responsible for every death in vulnerable populations that cannot receive the vaccine directly.

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