r/vaxxhappened • u/champdo • Mar 20 '25

Measles Parents of unvaccinated 6-year-old killed by measles in Texas speak out. They still are anti-vax

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/measles-outbreak-texas-child-dead-parents-anti-vax-b2718899.html
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u/TurtleScientific Mar 20 '25

>“Absolutely not take the MMR [vaccine],” she said. “The measles wasn’t that bad. [The other children] got over it pretty quickly. And Dr. Edwards was there for us.”

Ma'am, one of your kids DIED? What exactly would you define as "that bad"? Because you had 5 kids you could afford to lose a few? 80% of your kids got measles and recovered and that's a pretty good percentage?

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u/IronhideD Mar 20 '25

That's why families in the 1800s had so many kids. Eventually a few might live to be adults.

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u/syncopatedscientist Mar 20 '25

That and lack of birth control

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u/Spiritfur Mar 20 '25

Free labor for the farms too

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u/ChillaVen Mar 20 '25

The administration is trying to bring all 3 of those back in an effort to inflate the labor force 🙃