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.
Sorry for the kid. Maybe the parents will also learn the legal side of “criminal neglect”. They simply murdered their own child.
Only if the parents are brown.
If white, “it was gawds will”.
Or “It was The Markets will” if you’re a centrist or capitalist. Their belief system works pretty much exactly the same, just a different god. Centrist so-called atheist enablers are not excused from this equation.
These morons think God’s will controls everything, apparently it didn’t occur to them that God also intended for humans to create vaccines.
“Capitalism created vaccines.” - The Average “Enlightened” Centrist
They didn’t murder they own kid, it was God simply telling them it was their kid’s time to go. I mean that with 100% sarcasm, but there are people out there who believe just that.
but there are people out there who believe just that.
That is the sad part.
The chances of America charging these parents is zero. And this poor kid is just a herald of of things to come - people dying of preventable, contagious diseases because morons and kooks think vaccines are some kind of left wing conspiracy.
Could they be arrested for this though? Getting vaccinated isn’t mandatory. They made the very poor decision to not vaccinate their child, but is it neglect?
Vaccines are such a charged subject for political reasons (that felt so frustrating to type).
I try to find something analogous. If I had the option to remove a poisonous plant from my home, I didn’t because of personal choice, and my child ate the plant and died, I would consider it neglect.
Legally however, not even judges will agree with each other on this.
The fact that it is not mandatory should not even register with anyone with half a brain cell.
The US is just so stupidly backwards and going even further in that direction that it’s even an option to not vaccinate your kids.
All that’s going to happen is that this country will push out all the intelligent people who will want to leave for somewhere with some intelligence and the oligarchs will be left to rule over a blatantly stupid populace who force themselves into slavery
RFK Jr wants to cut back on medical research and other countries have already said “come over here to continue your work” so yeah, we’ll definitely see a lot of people leaving.
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.
You legitimately have too much patience.
In so far that anyone can deserve to suffer, these pieces of shit do.
Not a chance.
They’ll find a convenient scapegoat (probably trans people) and dig in deeper.
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.
Yeah, but at least he didn’t have autism!
How’s all that winning working out for Texas?
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.
Another sad aspect to this is that often the parents think they are doing the right thing. They’re wrong of course. Some people have mental issues that lead them to “magical thinking”. I know some people who are anti Vax, and are very health conscious in all other respects. They’re just ignorant. One of the founders of permaculture in Australia wrote about being against the covid vaccine during the lockdowns here. I used to live in one of the villages he designed, and the people and their beliefs were mostly lovely. But they have a distrust of science that makes them vulnerable to dangerous ideas.
My late father used to smoke at least a pack a day. He did that for almost fifty years. When he was diagnosed with incurable lung cancer he said, and I quote: “We’ll never know why I got this”.
People can be really good at dodging responsibility even in the face of overwhelming evidence.
These are Mennonites. Preventing gods gifts of disease is the devils work.
Congratulations Texans! You did it!
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.
How do you die from measles? I mean what actually causes death? Is it pneumonia?
Fever.
Evolution in live
That poor kid. Easily preventable if they didn’t have stupid parents. At what point can we hold the parents accountable?
In a sane system, at this point.
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.
When can we hold Bobby Brainworms accountable?
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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.
Ah shit. The rubes got 3-4 months of jail or house arrest for killing their child through stupidity, and appealed that. They got a judge later accused as biased and got the sentence overturned. The crown was considering a third trial, but couldn’t because the evidence was no longer great. And the idiots tried to push for court costs after skating scot-free.
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 there’s prayers and talks of God’s will involved too.
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.
That child died because their parents are fucking morons. They should be held accountable.
Yup. Or if you don’t vacate yourself or your children you shouldn’t be allowed to travel, go to events, and you get medical care in a tent outside
As a person with a weakened immune system, I am totally with you on that.
But, you can’t restrict my freedom! I should still get the right to free travel AND the right to die of fully treatable disease, on top of my right to spread them to you! Fuck yeah, America, freedom, 2nd amendment!
Edit: and God and Trump!
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Queue the childs parents: If only we’d known how dangerous measles was we’d have gotten our child vaccinated!
But not from experts, we don’t trust those!
Nah, they’ll wish there was a way to protect their child from dangerous childhood diseases and that the fascist medical system failed them.
Ah, also another classic.
A big storm approaches. The weatherman urges everyone to get out of town. The priest says, “I won’t worry, God will save me”.
The morning of the storm, the police go through the neighborhood with a sound truck telling everyone to evacuate. The priest says “I won’t worry, God will save me”.
The storm drains back up and there is an inch of water standing in the street. A fire truck comes by to pick up the priest. He tells them “Don’t worry, God will save me.”
The water rises another foot. A National Guard truck comes by to rescue the priest. He tells them “Don’t worry, God will save me.”
The water rises some more. The priest is forced up to his roof. A boat comes by to rescue the priest. He tells them “Don’t worry, God will save me.”
The water rises higher. The priest is forced up to the very top of his roof. A helicopter comes to rescue the priest. He shouts up at them “Don’t worry, God will save me.”
The water rises above his house, and the priest drowns.
When he gets up to heaven he says to God “I’ve been your faithful servant ever since I was born! Why didn’t you save me?”
God replies "First I sent you a fire truck, then the national guard, then a boat, and then a helicopter. What more do you want from me!!??
In 2025 the average centrist sees rising oceans, climate disruption, and fascism taking over the globe.
“Don’t worry, The Markets will save me.”
That is literally Noah’s ark from the POV no one talks about
I’ve been urging my wife to use this parable on her elderly parents who keep refusing our help. They sold their house about 20 years ago and used the money to buy an RV so they could travel around the US… while they waited for the rapture to take them up to heaven.
They blew all their retirement savings and now they’re living in a trailer park trying to deal with a multitude of medical issues for which they don’t have insurance. Because they never expected to live this long. And they keep saying they’re waiting for god to send them a solution to their problems.
dang, sorry to hear you’re having to go through this with her parents =(
If only this country could’ve been founded by people who knew the heartbreak of losing a child to a preventable disease.
In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if the child died under it: my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen. -Benjamin Franklin
Or, more recently, the author Roald Dahl, who lost a daughter to measles in 1962.
In the letter he described his personal experience: “Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its course, I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it.” She became disinterested in playing and within an hour was unconscious.[1] “Within twelve hours she was dead” he wrote.
This isn’t relevant to your comment, but out of curiosity. Have i been using the wrong cue in this context? It is cue and not queue, right? Like cue ball or cue the music, meaning begin or start and not queue like lining up or waiting your turn?
The person you replied to should have used cue rather than queue.
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”.
The danger of a measles outbreak is especially scary if you have a baby, because they can’t even get this vaccination until 12 months old. Similar if you’re immunocompromised, I’m sure.
This is why herd immunity is so important.
