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.
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.
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.
So Manslaughter and child neglect. Is Texas a lawless state?
Evolution in live
This is really sad for an easily preventable disease. Below the fold, they mention this (which a lot of people won’t see without reading the article)
The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in West Texas, where small towns are separated by vast stretches of oil rig-dotted open land but connected due to people traveling between towns for work, church, grocery shopping and other errands.
Its made it into bigger cities now…
Mennonite? More like Moronite. Gottem (⌐■_■)
Hopefully the poor parents can find some comfort in the fact, that at least the child wasn’t infected with autism…
Here we go…
Oh jeez, that is terrible. I cannot imagine.
For the love of Pete, get yourself and your loved ones VACCINATED.
Death cult.
Literally.
You mean the one who has a half-naked tortured guy being executed by cross as their symbol?
The report states that this was a “school-age child”. Because the outbreak is primarily in rural west Texas Mennonite families, the child was likely homeschooled and with parents who, while not opposed to vaccines, are on the fundamental side of religion. Mennonite is like Amish-lite.
I believe this may have been a combination of poor education, jesus stuff, and misplaced faith in isolation.
Is that true of these Mennonites in West Texas? Mennonites are a pretty diverse group. I had a friend who was Mennonite and his parents were biker metalheads. He was a straightedge, vegan hardcore guy. You’d never confuse them for Amish.
I’m not west Texas Mennonite, so I couldn’t say with authority. Both Amish and Mennonite are Anabaptist, but Mennonites don’t eschew electricity, cars, and technology.
The Mennonite families I’ve known were rural and lived in a more humble fashion with a hard-working ethic reminiscent of 1950’s USA. They were also inclusive, so they probably would embrace biker metalheads.
That poor kid. Easily preventable if they didn’t have stupid parents. At what point can we hold the parents accountable?
When can we hold Bobby Brainworms accountable?
Pretty sure they are suffering from their stupidity already.
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.
I’m pretty sure there’s prayers and talks of God’s will involved too.
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.
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.
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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.
Parents should be charged
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Too bad this spread stupidity affects those few people who cannot really get a vaccine because they’re immunocompromised.
Exactly, all these deaths are collaterals to the antivaccine movement
Abortion of a sperm isn’t okay but aborting a kid years later is okay per REP-Red
At least they didn’t get autism.
It’s kinda hard to maintain eye contact when you’re dead, though
