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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Vaccination down in the face of an epidemic, and new parents are refusing vitamin K shots in babies so brain bleeding and permanent brain damage.

USA is fucked. You spend so much time and effort making abortion illegal but then you kill the kids later, either by disease or gunshot.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Don't forget car accidents, and overdosing.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The people of the United States can choose to refresh their memory of the scourges eliminated by vaccination through education and healthcare, or through the death and suffering of those that they love.

Eventually, the choice will be made for them.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, they've already repeatedly chosen against education and healthcare.

[–] taco@anarchist.nexus 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago
[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I hate the idea of dead kids, dying from preventable diseases that their parents elected not to prevent.

I hate those parents more. May their children dead from preventable diseases inflict the worst kind of mental torment imaginable for them.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

These people can rationalize anything, including the death of their own children. That's how they got to this point in the first place.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Then may their households forever be minus one free set of hands for unpaid labor.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

May their lineage end with them.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

Preferably sooner rather than later.

[–] areakode@riskeratspizza.com 14 points 5 hours ago

And there's NOBODY who could have foreseen this...

[–] comador@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

So many darwin awards this decade...

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Darwin awards are for people that remove themselves from the gene pool before they procreate. The parents already reproduced and the kids that die have no control over the matter so Darwin awards don't apply in either case.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, technically the parents are removing themselves from the gene pool. I haven't heard the stipulation that it's "before procreating". I think getting your kids killed by an easily preventable disease is macabre, but technically counts.

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

You're right that it doesn't have to happen before they have reproduced but it must be a self inflicted injury that prevents future reproduction.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Seems pretty self inflicted, no?

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

Also the poor kids that are medically unable to receive certain vaccines, and depend on herd immunity. 😞

[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

The way covid was dealt with created a mistrust in the institutions we will pay for a while