… This isn’t an onion article. That’s horrifying.
The most generous way I can look at this is to say she’s in denial. Five unvaccinated children with one dead. Apparently a 20% fatality rate (in her family) is not enough of a reason to get the vaccine.
The most generous way I can look at this is she’s a danger to her children, and they should be removed from her. Rejecting vaccines should not be a choice, just like choosing to starving your children should not be a choice.
If she got bit by a rabid dog, she’d get the vaccine in a heartbeat. Anti-vaxxers are only anti-vaxxers out of pure spite for science and the government. That’s literally it. Willfull ignorance and contradicting personalities in defiance of the status quo. If the disease has a low risk of them or their loved ones dying, they’ll take the risk of not taking the vaccine, because they suck at math and it can’t possibly happen to them and their family.
If the risk of death is 100% (like in rabies), they’ll take the vaccine, because they know deep down they are fking wrong about vaccines and they don’t want the 100% chance of death.
Btw, If you ever debate with an anti-vaxxer irl, asking them if they’d take the rabies vaccine once bit by a rabid animal does fuck up their stupid logic quite effectively.
Math is not their strong suit.
Neither is science. These are the kids who set in the back of the class and got D’s and got passed by the teacher because they didn’t want to deal with them for another year.
Woman who doesn’t use conventional birth control is shocked to discover this one weird trick.
They cracked the code to the elusice 30th trimester abortion.
She probably claims to be “pro-life” too
Gotta keep having kids if you’re going to let them die like this or disown them when they turn out wrong. Arrows for the quiver of god, or whatever. That poor child deserved to live a full life.
Wow how selfish can you be? What a horrible mom
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.
They’ll probably come around to the realization in time, but we won’t see that interview.
Prolly not
There was another story the other day of a father whose unvaccinated daughter died of measles, and he said he was still glad she didn’t get the vaccine because he didn’t trust what’s in it to be safe. These people’s minds are not functioning rationally.
Iirc that was a Mennonite. Not that or makes things better, but they’re a weird cult, even for weird cults. Electric Amish.
I assumed this is the same family. If not, measels may be doing it’s thing.
Measles is insanely infectious. People have no clue the fire they’re inviting into our lives. Even vaccinated people are at risk.
Yes, so often we see people online saying “Ha ha, let the morons get COVID/measles/bird flu/etc!” They don’t stop to think about the risk to everyone else, particularly vulnerable people some of whom can’t get vaccinated and rely on herd immunity. In all these years still that lesson doesn’t seem to have been learned. I suspect the people saying this are healthy young people who haven’t really considered how different from theirs some people’s lives are.
They’re chronically stupid.
Terminally stupid in this case.
More like homicidally stupid.
Parents like these deserve a bolt right between the eyes.
Whatever you may think of the parents for this, I don’t suspect the other children would be much better off in the foster care system.
But there’s a chance the foster family would at least get them their vaccinations.
Murderer.
Welcome to the new America. It breaks my heart.
“i don’t even like my kids”
These fucking people are ghouls.
Edit: Christ, those times when I fail as a parent, all I need to do is read about this kinda bullshit. Holy hell. I cannot contemplate this attitude to the preventable death of one of my kids.
Pretty sure vaccines make measles more than 80% survivable so she’s missing out
Mother of child that died of measles in the USA in 2025 is anti-vax. Insert Pikachu
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.
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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.
