Does this qualify for a Darwin Award?
this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2025
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If the child could medically get vaccinated, the parents murdered their own kid. You don't get to be a parent and get something like vaccines wrong.
What a fantastic thing for the parents to experience! I love that they will have to live with the fact that their child is dead of a completely preventable disease purely because of their own decisions.
What's sad is, they won't even change from this.
That would require admitting they were wrong.
Stupidly insecure people are incapable of admitting fault unless they literally have no other choice in order to be accepted by their peers.
Meanwhile RFK Jr. is like "It's one child Michael, what could it cost? 10 dollars? "
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".
At least they didn't get autism.
Oh jeez, that is terrible. I cannot imagine.
For the love of Pete, get yourself and your loved ones VACCINATED.
I feel sorry for the kid, but at the same time, I hope the funeral is the most painful, drawn out event for their parents, that everyone who comes lets them know exactly whose fault it is that their child is dead. I hope it's a learning experience for them.
Unfortunately, no one in the antiVax is going to change their minds until it hits them very close. That kids first cousins might, maybe, get vaxed. More likely, they'll blame it on the hospital, or the flu.
Even if they're willing to admit that the vaccination would have saved his life they're going to be torn getting their other children vaccinated because of the possible negatives they think could happen. In their view it's a slight chance of death versus guaranteed autism.
I bet if you go ask them right now they'll point out that colds Have death rates associated with them. Just another avoidable unavoidable tragedy.
They'll refuse to be reasoned with or educated. These people were literally taking horse dewormer and an attempt to avoid vaccines.
I don't think that wishing them extra pain is particularly useful. We're all mad at them but realistically they're just undereducated, obstinate, and programmed.
People who don't get vaccines are stupid.
They're not going to learn their lesson; they're going to think that it was a random act of God without explanation.
And to make things worse, Bronzo the Clown installed that idiot Bobby Brainworms to validate their bullshit.
It is not an uncommon occurrence for evangelical extremists to tell you to be grateful your child or whoever is dead because they get to be with God. These people are mental.
As someone who grew up with this shit, after my sister died in an accident this is exactly what these nutters say.
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But the ticket, take the ride!
Buy the ticket, rake the ride!
it's ok, everyone. it was god's plan.
Increment Kennedy's body count again.
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Murder charge for the parents. But of course that kinda thing can't be prevented. /s
Expect more of this.
Sad upvote.
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
At last, my child is safe from the perils of autism!
Abortion of a sperm isn't okay but aborting a kid years later is okay per REP-Red
Death cult.
Literally.
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