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      How this isn’t abuse is beyond me. They’ll screen about personal freedoms, but what about that poor child’s personal freedom.

      I hate that we let parents treat kids like property.

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    From there, the interview took a turn. The mother said that after the death, her other four children developed the disease. It “must have been petrifying,” CHD’s director of programming, Polly Tommey, who was leading the interview, said. “Yeah, it was. It was hard,” the mother replied. But then, the family had the children treated by an alternative practitioner, Ben Edwards, who has grown popular in their West Texas community amid the ongoing measles outbreak. Edwards administers unproven treatments, including cod liver oil and the steroid budesonide, which is used to treat asthma and Crohn’s disease.

    Most children do recover from measles, regardless of whether they’re given cod liver oil. The fatality rate of measles is nearly 1 to 3 in 1,000 children, who die with respiratory (e.g., pneumonia) or neurological complications from the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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      of course anti-vaxxers use pseudoscience to treat illnesses. cod oils can cause diarrheal issues if you consume too much.

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    Crazy that anti-vax has even a fig leaf of personal liberty as a defense. Yes, you do have the right to make your own choices and you can be a negligent parent in 1000 different ways.

    But this isn’t even close to a personal freedom issue. You being a dumb piece of shit is a direct threat to the rest of society. YOU don’t get to make the personal choice to kill MY child.

    It should be simple for these serious diseases: unless you have a certified medical issue preventing it, you have to get the shot. Fuck any objection (personal, religious, whatever…). If there’s some negative side effect or a bad vaccine batch, you get generously compensated for our collective societal fault in harming you.

    Strap them down and jab them, let them bitch and moan about everyone’s children being alive and healthy later.

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      Either that or, more gently, ban them from public spaces if they haven’t had the vaccine – schools, public administrations, grocery stores, malls, churches…

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        This is the approach I would suggest. I do not agree with forcing people to take vaccines, but if they want to be part of society then this is a reasonable requirement. It’s simply an extension of the duty of care principle we already have for healthcare environments where vaccination and other measures are required for people to work in.

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    The denial after the fact is a necessary coping mechanism. Otherwise, they will suffer from the guilt of killing their child.

    Which they absolutely did.