“We’re not blaming God for this,” said 35-year-old Kristina. “Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we’re gonna glorify his name regardless.
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Doctors suggested Ethan’s parents could take him to Greenville Memorial Hospital, a larger facility with more specialists. Because their son was in so much distress, his parents decided to take him home and keep a close eye on him. “If all they’re doing is antibiotics, maybe he’ll be more comfortable at home, and we don’t have to put him through this,” his mom said
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Less than 48 hours later, though, on Jan. 30, Ethan’s condition deteriorated to the point where he had “no movement at all,” his mom said. “It felt like his body was slowly losing all mobility,” she recalled. Kristina rushed Ethan to see the local doctor, who took one look at him and told the mom to get him to Greenville Memorial Hospital, about a 36-mile drive, right away.
Fuck every single unfortunate atom that make up these inbred fucking monsters. ‘God’ gave them enough signs to make election campaigners jealous and they ignored every fucking one. They should be in prison for child endangerment at best.
conservatism is a mental illness.
I’ve never seen “religion” spelled that way before.
Sounds like laziness leading to child neglect, to me. There are endless ways to justify laziness, no need to pick some specific one.
It’s not laziness. These people are actively opposed to vaccination.
I live in this region. Yep
Lazy thinkers.
Religion is just an excuse to justify the hatred. They hate the real Jesus and disagree with the text in the Bible.
These people have never read the bible.
My point exactly. If it wasn’t religion, they’d find something else to use as justification for their hatred.
Religion normalizes the tribalism and magical-thinking.
Attempted murder gets my vote. Restraining order automatically granted between parent and child.
Just as ignorance of the law is no excuse, maybe we should think the same way about science provided three things:
- It is very consequential when science is ignored
- There is insanely broad consensus in the scientific community about the topic at hand
- A scientist, in this case a doctor, tells you to do something and then you do the opposite
Idk i kind of get it. I don’t want the government regulating how I raise my kids. I don’t want them to enforce that i follow rfk jrs recommendations. I don’t want them saying I legally have to educate my kids according to turning point’s curriculum.
It’s a slippery slope and I don’t trust the government as far as I can throw it to set what is considered scientific consensus.
Hard agree these parents should be found criminally negligent, but how will that be possible when their own government is telling them not to trust vaccines?
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A parade of bad decisions against this poor kids, then they ward the end she whines about feeling helpless? You missed so many chances to be helpful
God gave you vaccinations.
Yeah… This is what MAGA looks like here.
A lot of people are confused about what’s happened to my country. The answer is that votes from people like this are being counted as far more valuable than people in big cities that understand and respect science.
I’m speaking literally.
They have MORE of a weighted importance when voting.
Trust me, I know. County v county and whichever side has more counties gets the state, then whichever gets more states gets the win. Instead of something reasonable like population, this makes rural areas almost guaranteed to beat urban areas.
I’m American too and the election system here has always been awful. Unfortunately we’re taught that it’s ‘the only way’ or whatever the power-mongers would say.
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I still wouldn’t release my hand from around this anti vaccine person’s windpipe and see if she understands her dumbass beliefs.
Yeah, thank God he’s only brain damaged, he might have had autism. ಠ_ಠ
thank God he’s only brain damaged
Think of the upside: now she doesn’t have to be jealous of her son’s intellect.
Fuck yes she does.
When people use the autism excuse (i.e. “vaccines cause autism”), I interpret that as “so you’d rather they be dead than to have autism?”
I don’t actually believe vaccines cause autism, but I’m not going to try and argue that with someone when there is a much simpler counterargument.
Because they would literally rather that. If the kid “simply dies” then they get their eternal reward in Paradise you see. However they literally see autism as a manifestation of a moral failing. it’s just literally God punishing them for vaccinating the kid.
A lot of them will never admit this out loud. Many of them don’t even realize that this is how they think about it because it’s a subconscious bias like how a lot of these so-called Christians hate poor people despite literally being told to treat them well and give to the poor. They have that unconscious bias of the Prosperity Gospel that makes them believe that rich people are favored by God and that’s why they’re rich, and therefore being poor must be a moral failing and a punishment from God. So they end up believing that the poor deserve to suffer because they’re poor.
If we could identify autism in the womb, these people wouldn’t be pro-life anymore.
They would actively kill the newborns they cry so much about protecting. I mean, they do anyway through negligence/lack of support because they only care about them while they’re still in the womb, but they wouldn’t care even then if they were an autistic kid.
they should check the mom too.
I hate everything about this. these dumb fucking people making these dumb fucking choices and only cause problems for a child who had no say in the matter.
this kid doesn’t even get a chance at life because his idiot “caregivers” decided that he was better off
That mom needs to get slapped with charges and rot in jail, but we all know she’ll just toss up a GoFund me and hit the nutty grifter circuit.
Both parents do. Dad is on the same side. Kid’s able to move after almost a month in the hospital.
They pulled him from the first hospital because, “all they’re doing is giving him antibiotics, so he might be more comfortable at home,” even after that hospital told them to take him to a better hospital with specialists. Then when he went catatonic at home, they took him to the family doctor, literally his pediatrician, who took one look and said," get him to the good hospital now."
The article even says that the mom played the whole ‘god has a plan’ shit and that the son was chosen for it, by god.
I hate that this shit is going on 2 hours (driving) away.
whole ‘god has a plan’ shit and that the son was chosen for it, by god.
They have to do that now, because the alternate would mean admitting that they’re abusing (possibly murdering) their child. And I guess their brain needs to protect them from that reality.
There’s also the consequence that admitting anything else would mean their god isn’t in control. I’m not sure what would terrify such a person more - admitting they were wrong about how to care for their kid, or admitting their god lacks the power to intervene in their life.
Should be considered criminal negligence.
Child abuse as well
If they weren’t his parents it would be charged as murder, plain and simple.
The words they failed to use are “Child neglect” or “Child abuse”.
“And we wouldn’t change it any other way,” the mom continued. “If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine.”
That’s what we call child neglect
That’s called negligence causing death. She admitted that if she knew this would kill her child she’d do it anyway.
This just sounds like abortion with extra steps.
Essentially saying, “I’d rather have a dead child than an autistic one.”
You should go to jail for abusing your kid over a conspiracy theory.
The jury of her peers in the district will be 20 points below her current IQ.
She’s not a fit parent. Full fucking stop.
With thought like hers, i don’t think she’s fit for society.
I have a relative who has refused to get her three children vaccinated because she’s convinced that’s what causes autism. Guess what? Her youngest child was just diagnosed with autism anyway. So now she says it’s because she (the mom) was vaccinated as a child, and somehow that made her son autistic. There’s no reasoning with unreasonable people.
Why the fuck are vaccines a political thing? FFS, they aren’t a new thing and have a long-proven track record of being effective at preventing debilitating and deadly diseases.
TRUMP made it extremely political during covid, and all the anti-vaxxers that were originally on the “hippie” side of the left went to alt-right wing. besides it was the movement jumpstarted by Jenny mccarthy and her husband convincing midwestern moms in the 2000s that it cause autism they took it and ran with it.(apparently i dint see anything after 2015, so they mightve stopped doing it"
Because the proponents try to work through all means, including political, to spread their idiocy.
A capable government would mandate a basic set of vaccines, with medical exceptions only, and those only with a second opinion from a limited list of specially accredited specialists.
It’s not political per-see, these are ideological extremist.
I’d say it started out as a troll, Poe’s law took hold, and now it’s used as yet another dividing tactic so Republicans can swindle half the country into ignoring the abuse by the ruling class.
why would she change her decision? her kid is suffering, not her. that’s just an accessory, not something she’s actually attached to.
Psychologically makes sense. If her child is almost dead due to her decision, then she can either keep fooling herself it was a good decision, or she can acknowledge it’s her fault her child is almost dead.
It’s much easier to keep insisting it was a good decision, because the alternative is extremely uncomfortable.
It’s because the thought that she made a mistake that would kill her son would literally be brain breaking.
These people will not learn lessons this way. You cannot logic people out of a position they did not logic themselves into. This speaks to a greater distrust in institutions which should worry folks a lot more than this, if they value what they have left. And there are very valid reasons they have these opinions even if their expressions of mistrust are misguided.
Please know that when these institutions fail though, it’s fertile ground for a thousand new futures. Don’t stop fighting.
She literally blames god for it not her own actions.
Yes, that is part of this.
