Antivaxxers are directly responsible for this.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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otherwise natural selection will take its course
maybe they will learn from these mistakes
“They believe she’s better off where she is now.”
This sounds like an abortion with extra steps.
“My kid is dead but it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.” Wut.
Well, I guess at least that child has been saved from the scourge of autism or something? Those people shouldn’t be parents.
That's horrifying. I truly believe that the family should attempt to sue RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration. Is that something that can be done? I know that international lawsuits are complicated, but it seems like there was a pretty clear cut cause here. Disinformation purposefully spread by a foreign government and its officials. My condolences to the family.
Baby caught measles from mom, mom likely also wasn't vaccinated, which even if she's young predates Trump and the lowly worm. Babies can't be vaccinated against measles until they're older, they've even started doing it at 6 months but definitely not at birth. So this is a gift from religious conservatives of the sort that have always been in Alberta and not vaccinating. This trend began many years before this, and I would say really started to surge in about 2002-ish.
I think the whole thing started in 98 with Wakefield and his claim that MMR vaccine caused autism.
If I remember correctly he wasn’t even an antivaxer rather he wanted to sell his schedule.
Antivaxxers have existed for as long as vaccines have existed, but he and Jenny McCarthy sure popularised the movement.
McCarthy recanted, but Robert DeNiro is still antivaxing because he won't admit having kids over 40 is a huge risk to autism, and he's still having children at 80.
I'm glad she has recanted. Never thought she would.
Def began there, but early social media like Livejournal and its crunchy moms is what caused it to thrive. And since then weaponized disinformation from Russia has kept it briskly turning.
Just a PSA, you can still get measles even if you're vaccinated. It is rare, but it is possible. Lets not jump to conclusions on the mom here. (Though I agree with the rest of your comment)
Fair enough. Probably not a case in this scenario then. Still, something fitting what I described is probably coming soon. Little kid gets sick from an American tourist, ends up dead. I'm almost surprised that I haven't heard of something like that happening before.
If you could sue Trump over this. The Americans will try to sue China over Covid.
Frrreeeeeeeeeduuuuuuumb!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to go Alberta, you reaking cesspit.
I usually don't care about the the title, but your modifications to the original change the meaning of that headline substantially.
What is it with posters here just not understanding this rule? It's like the only rule... Is it bots?
I think this may be more of an issue of the article's title being changed after the post is submitted. If you hover over the link to see the article URL, it originally had the same title as this post