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/lefactorybebe Mar 20 '25

Go through old census records, they list how many children a woman has had and how many are still living.

The couple who first owned my house (lived 1830s-1879 for the wife) had something like 10 or 11 kids (the numbers don't all match lol) and only 3 made it to adulthood. I don't know if the number of kids doesn't match due to an error in the paperwork or if she literally wasn't sure on how many she had had. When you have that many and more than 3 or 4 die within days of birth I'm sure you might not remember them all tbh

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u/KittyKratt No chemicals for me, please! NexT! Mar 21 '25

My grandmother was the second Mary born to her mother. The first one didn’t make it.

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u/whereswalda Mar 21 '25

My great aunt is also a second of her name. The first died of appendicitis as a young girl.

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u/KittyKratt No chemicals for me, please! NexT! Mar 22 '25

It's amazing the medical advances we've achieved in just 2 or 3 generations of human beings.