Parents of daughter who died of measles meets with RFK Jr. to blame everyone but themselves.
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The parents murdered their child.
Hamburger-faced RFK is conspiring to murder more.
I hope you can vaccinate your children and they are not immunocompromised and relying on herd immunity
Because the Republicans don’t want to live in a society where we take care of each other.
That’d be insane the classes would have like two kids in them
… so yeah completely plausible move by these idiots 😩
What the heck kind of photo op is that? The guy in charge of keeping people from dying takes a picture with a family whose daughter died from a preventable illness?
"Hey, good job on the dead kid! Lets take a picture!"
Just following the boss's example...
This is even a few years after calling all soldiers that die in war "suckers" and "losers"
and ending "whats in it for them", plus his other qoute" I dont like soldiers that are captured or dead"
👍
"Cheese!"
Like, seriously. They're smiling like their cute little 8-yo isn't dead a few days ago. What fucking sick ghouls.
Jesus Christ, I'm amazed they managed to keep RFK from eating the fucking corpse.
He didn't eat it but he did strap it to the roof of his car while he ran some errands.
Bruh the callback was fantastic. A+ comment with no notes
Holy fuck. This comment.. Gold does not exist on this platform, but surely there is something worthy to offer.
First born child...?
No, a dead corpse of a first born child.
Cadaverific!
his face is melting, he needs a new face soon.
"How could the liberals have done this to me?"
There should be someone assigned to follow these stupid sacks of shit around through every waking moment. Any time they try to express an opinion, their minder can slap them into oblivion and remind anyone nearby that these assholes killed their own kid. No tip-toeing around and giving them space to craft their own narrative about what happened, just a perpetual rain of palms on faces until the message sinks in.
Make this your platform and you've got my vote
Some day you fine people will realize that none of them care about the noises that come out of their mouths as long as they are the right shape
They aren't expressing an opinion, they're expressing whatever they feel will piss off as many people as possible
They don't craft a narrative, they aggregate ridiculous arguments until you are so exausted of trying to keep up refuting them that you go away
That is their main goal, plan, and purpose
Variation of the Gish Gallop.
Their favorite tactic, labeled as 'The Firehose of Lies' as the modern russian implementation
It's getting harder to believe you're wrong, day by day.
No, you let her down.
Hold on. So let me get this straight.
And this guy blames the Hospital?
Wow. You might as blame God, Mickey Mouse, and Tiktok dancers who also failed to keep her alive as well.
Skipped: 0. Did not vaccinate their child against the most common and deadly childhood infectious disease (measles), for which a free and highly effective vaccine is available and offered.
You forgot:
There was a similar case here in Alberta several years ago. Kid got bacterial meningitis and his parents tried to treat it with chili oil and maple syrup. Poor kid reached the point where he couldn't sit because his back muscles were seized, so Mom threw a mattress in the back of the car for him to lay on to visit the naturopath. Nurse friend of theirs alerted them to the possibility of meningitis and told them to take him to a doctor, but instead they went home and did nothing for several more days... kid eventually stopped breathing, and they only called 911 after he started turning blue. They lived in bumfuck nowhere, so it took fifteen or twenty minutes to meet the ambulance in the middle.
Rather than accept even a shred of responsibility, they blamed the ambulance for not being adequately equipped to resuscitate their child.
excessive oil consumption will cause GI distress in itself.
They should be charged with child abuse and neglect, and any other children removed from their care.
They won’t, unfortunately. They’ll continue to reproduce and do the same shit over again.
A direct quote from the father. He doesn't realize he's talking about himself.
She was eight. Their callous stone-headed defiance against giving a safe and effective vaccine to their children killed their otherwise entirely healthy eight year old girl, who had friends and dreams and goals and a favourite colour.
Sadistic, unrepentant morons.
And now they're basking in the limelight with the celebrity-cum-Health-czar?
I can confidentltly say this sideshow would occur in no other western nation. America is sliding backwards so fast its an avalanche.
Well to be fair, this sort of this has been happening orettycuh only in the US for decades now. Its Just that the volume went from 9 to 11 now
Cum health? I thought he was holistic?
Republicans are SO Pro Life and Pro Family that not EVEN KILLING THEIR OWN CHILD will Change Their Minds about ANYTHING!
Luckily, they can always have another child and kill it too. It's the beauty of nature.
Oh of course they’re some kind of Mennonite or Christian extremist. look at her head covering.
Religon is child abuse
They're doing victory laps with a politician over a dead kid, it doesn't get much more grotesque or morbid.
All of their children could die of measles and they'd still say: "God works in mysterious ways."
This reflects my experience growing up with a religion really accurately. What really kills you in the end, is that you took it seriously, when you come out of it you realize no one else was.
lol no, I've been a victim of both and getting hit in the head with a belt buckle was a lot worse than having to sit through an hour of church a week
And both are abuse.
You people are insane
As insane as all the youth pastors that like little boys?
The incidence of abuse among pastors, while abhorrent, is lower than the general population.
Yes it is a horrible crime that pastors abuse their authority to harm children
Statistically, they are still safer with pastors than their own uncles and aunts.
But everyone on lemmy hates religion.
You know this was a big problem in my day, 'Stranger danger'.
The VAST majority of abuse cases are by someone the child knows and is related to, but so much time and effort was put in to make the public freak out about a vast army of anonymous pedophiles all plotting to kidnap their children that so many domestic cases were swept under the rug for more salacious public targets (that mostly turned out to be innocent and had their lives ruined anyway by people like you)
But please keep up with the memes because you like to shit on religion so much
That’s a gross oversimplification. You do know most pastors that do that have to get close with the kids in the first place for it to happen… they don’t just see a kid on first day and go for it. They’re predators that try to build trust at first under the guise of religion being safe and trustworthy.
Good thing they just ship them off to another church once they’re found out? I’m sure plenty of cases get swept under the rug because psycho-Christian families believe it was “God’s plan” or some bs.
And I will happily shit on religion all day :) “god” and jesus can choke on my nuts
Religious abuse is abuse. This isn't a fantasy, there's clear outcomes.
When you and your ilk classify being raised in a religious household as child abuse, your every other argument loses power due to its absurdity
There is no reasonable discussion with such as you
I don't think all religion is child abuse. Not everyone is your polar opposite extremist.
I enjoyed church as a kid because it was the one place they COULDN'T just beat the shit out of me for no reason. But still, the indoctrination, lies, manipulation, twisted fucked up world view, and sexual repression are all things ALSO fucking up my adult life. The abuse abuse was a much harder thing to live through and accepting that recovery is a lifetime process not a goal with a possible ending is fucking horrifying, but you know. They both did register as shit I wish I never went through.
Its not religions fault you had shitty parents
It's a good thing your here to be a piece of shit about it. What would people think if you weren't jumping into people talking about child abuse shitting on their life experience? They might think a religious person could be compassionate and respectful. Good you're here to put a stop to that bullshit.
Because 'death' totally isn't one of the possible adverse reactions from measles. Oh wait..
It's amazing to me how many people antivaxxers claim to know who've had adverse reactions to a vaccine, given how low actual rates are. I'm convinced that these dipshits not only attribute every sniffle and scrape they suffer to vaccines they received, often years or decades earlier, but use the word "know" as shorthand for "heard thirdhand from someone."
One antivaxxer I used to work with claimed he knew six people who'd suffered severe adverse affects from one of the COVID shots, but it turned out they were all cases he'd heard about from a girl he used to date whose former roommate was a nurse or some bullshit.
I'm one of the people who had an adverse reaction to the COVID vaccine and boosters, a mild allergic reaction resulting in shortness of breath. Sucked to have to spend an extra hour or so at the vaccine centre each time to be monitored, but a small price to pay. My father-in-law unfortunately did develop pericarditis, which was a known side-effect of the vaccine he received. He's doing better these days, but it took over a year to clear up.
But despite that, I'd still recommend getting those shots. Apart from these side-effects being rare, I've seen how Long-COVID fucked up two of my friends. Both in their 20's, healthy, worked out very regularly and in peak condition. COVID completely wrecked them, one catched it before the vaccine became available and the other now regrets his decision to put his trust in the crap floating around social media. Hard lesson to learn.
Personally I came down with COVID at some point and it made Influenza feel like the common cold. I don't think I've ever felt worse in my entire life and I shudder at the thought of how it might have ended had I skipped the jabs.
In other words, "I am terminally stupid and should not be in charge of other human beings."
Baby-killers.
makes you think... yeah there sure seems to be sick fucks out there that would murder a kid, but your own kid?
sick fucks
She died doing what they loved.
Ignoring modern medicine in exchange for right wing cred.
I mean if you absolutely want to you can kinda see death as a weird form of "natural remedy" I guess... Because once dead you definitely aren't sick anymore and on top of that you also won't ever get sick anymore. Doubt this is what they want to hear though.
It is, and I can't stress this enough, EXACTLY what they want to hear. Almost what they said about it, verbatim.
I am disgusted beyond words. These are clearly people that should have been born unable to reproduce with how little they care for a life they created.
Fundies gonna fundie.
Adverse reactions? You mean like death? Wtf is a worse reaction than that? If you truly cared for your child, you'd do everything in your power to keep death as far from your kid as possible.
These people belong in jail for willfully killing someone.
being vaccinated of course, according to them.
Jesus would find it difficult not to slap the shit out of the parents
They should have any remaining kids removed, how sad that for something preventable a child has died because of its parents.
They should, but instead they are being promoted as the poster family for the official US government policy on the subject. It is pretty wild.
But of course wilder still that this is just one minor insane side story in the current news avalanche of shitty stories.
Spot on!
Jesus would
find it difficult not toslap the shit out of the parentsFtfy
Natural selection
I saw a vid of a doctor talking to anti-vaxers.
They don't want to learn. They want to be in their own little reality where they are right and "stupid idiot DOCTORS" are wrong.
When cognitive dissonance turns deadly.
There's no cognitive dissonance here, and far too many people misuse the term. Cognitive dissonance is a feeling of discomfort a person feels from holding beliefs that contradict each other or from behaving contrary to their beliefs.
This is just plain old stupidity. These assholes believed vaccines are a hoax, their daughter died as a result, and they still believe vaccines are a hoax. They behaved exactly as one would expect antivaxxers to behave.
Willful ignorance?
Cult.
I hope they gave rfk measles
Oh, he is up to date on his vaccines for sure.
his worms arnt affected by human diseases.
With parents like that, the dead kid got off lucky.
Haha wow, I almost ate the onio—wait, what do you mean this is real? I hate this timeline.
Meh, your daughter is dead but who cares? You got to meet JFK, man, who gives a shit about some bratty girl?
America has become a very fucked up country in a very short amount of time.
America just took of the mask. We have always been this fucked up.
This guy pays attention.
You mean the last 40 years?
I suppose blame shifting feels better than examining how your own ill-informed negligence led directly to your child's death.
Out of all the imbeciles and low intelligent dung beetles in this article, there shines a bright light who lackadaisically pilots his automobile with his arm out the window donning his mint dandelion Carhartt hooded sweatshirt. Steve, the local designer, who non-nonchalantly proclaims that any and all should receive their vaccinations.
Good on you, Steve.
Clearly this is Joe Biden’s fault. /s
THANKS Obama...
Surely deporting anti-vaxxers to El Salvador would be a good thing ?
If they're going to consider abortion as murder, then child neglect should be penalized even harder.
That poor fucking girl. To have a precious life cut short because your parents have been intentionally brainwashed. Just tragic.
God's plan MFs when the plan affects them negatively.
When do they meet with the prosecutor?
I thought that was James Corbin
So now that the US is a dictatorship I'd like to become the dear leader. Step one: everybody vaccinates with only those exempt who have real issues with vaccines like those that take immunosuppressants.
Anyone who tries to skip will be permanently deported to a deserted island where they can just die or something, I really don't care. If it's a minor and the parent try to stop the kid, the parents will lose custody immediately and be deported to that island
Human rights? Don't care, don't apply, we'll simply say these aren't human beings. Either way, human rights are earned by being a decent human being like vaccinating yourself
I'm just done with these fuckers
How was this safer than a vaccine?