This story gets increasingly infuriating and insane as you read it.
- Mom decides not to vaccinate kids against measles, because of the “unnecessary stuff” in the vaccines and the “damage” she has seen in other kids who got the vaccine. (???)
“Why do we need to add so much to our children’s bodies?” she asked.”
- Decide to believe antivax nonsense rather than your own doctors. Absolutely idiotic decision, but hey, it's your decision as a parent, fine.
- Kids get the measles (totally unnecessarily), and expose others in the community too. Brothers get lucky and recover. This kid unfortunately gets sicker.
- Parents say hmm, that’s weird, why is he getting weaker and drifting in and out of consciousness? I thought measles was supposed to be harmless and a quick recovery! (Guess the anti-vaxxers didn't educate them about the risks of measles encephalitis?)
- Kid taken to local, smaller, ER, admitted, and placed on antibiotics. God knows what chemicals and “unnecessary stuff” is in these IV fluids and antibiotics, but that doesn’t matter much now, obviously
- Unclear diagnosis at this time, doctors recommend transfer to a larger center for evaluation. Totally appropriate thing to do. Parents decline, and say, hey if ALL you're doing is just giving him antibiotics, we’ll just take him home and keep an eye on him and help him get better at home.
- He goes home, gets worse, unsurprisingly. Taken emergently to the large hospital. Damn near dies, in the ICU, hooked up to IV lines, tubes, pumped full of fluids and God knows what chemicals, to keep him alive.
- MRI consistent with brain swelling, etc, basically: measles encephalitis. Kid is essentially paralyzed.
Reminder, this is a serious and potentially deadly complication of measles. No cure. Totally vaccine-preventable condition, so this whole ordeal is totally unnecessary.
- Mom says, I STILL wouldn’t give my kids the vaccine, even if I KNEW this would happen. God has a plan.
So you would totally let this happen again to another kid of yours?
????????
How cooked are people's brains that they will sacrifice their own kids to... own the libs?
This is so tragic. That poor kid. Completely preventable. Basic public health should not be a partisan issue.
This administration could have done so much to rebuild the public trust in our public health institutions that was eroded during the pandemic, but nope.
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