Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s harmful anti-vaxx nonprofit, Kids Well being Protection, has two new star spokespeople: the mother and father of the 6-year-old Texas lady who died of measles in February.
The mother and father—who’re Mennonites—appeared in an on-line interview with Kids’s Well being Protection on Monday, throughout which the younger mother and father stifled sobs, detailing how their unvaccinated daughter bought sick from measles after which pneumonia, finally resulting in her demise.
In a standard world, this might be a cautionary story of the risks of the anti-vaxx motion and the significance of vaccinating youngsters. Ideally, one thing good would come out of this tragedy.
However that is Donald Trump’s America.
The interviewer requested the mother and father what they might inform different mother and father about vaccinating their youngsters in opposition to measles.
“Don’t do the photographs. Measles [is] not as dangerous as they’re making it out to be,” the mom stated.
She additionally famous that her 4 different youngsters recovered from measles after receiving various remedies from an anti-vaccine physician, together with cod liver oil—a supply of vitamin A—and budesonide—a steroid that’s normally used to deal with bronchial asthma.
How far gone do you need to be to say that the illness that killed your daughter is “not as dangerous as they’re making it out to be?” You see, measles solely killed 20% of their youngsters—now they’ve proof that vitamin A is simpler than the vaccine.
The daddy didn’t need to be disregarded of the Worst Dad or mum Ever competitors, which he gained by flying colours.
“Additionally, the measles are good for the physique,” he stated.
In line with NBC, influencers at Kids’s Well being Protection and past have reframed the lady’s demise as proof—with out proof—of the efficacy of unproven cures like vitamin A, maltreatment by hospital employees, and even a plot to undermine Kennedy.
And this isn’t the primary time these mother and father have stated wild-ass shit.
Quickly after the lady’s demise, her father spoke with Tom Bartlett of The Atlantic.
The demise of his daughter, Peter informed me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the illness to take his daughter’s life. “Everyone has to die,” he stated.
God created measles? Then God created the vaccine and different medical breakthroughs, as a result of possibly God didn’t need the median age of people to be 23 years outdated. Maybe it was a good factor when people improved their odds of creating it to maturity.
Sure, everybody has to die. However typically talking, later is best than sooner. Is that truly controversial?
Kennedy himself—doubtless by means of gritted teet—penned an op-ed for Fox Information urging conservatives to get the measles vaccine, a reversal of his unique (and incorrect) knee-jerk response claiming that it was “malnutrition” that prompted her demise.
However given his lack of ability to remain on a constant vaccine message, this feels extra like a wink to the anti-vaxx neighborhood, and I actually anticipate them to deal with it as such. In any case, they know he’s one in every of them, and his group continues to advertise anti-vaxx lies.
It truly is superb how, dealing with the calamitous outcomes of their actions, anti-vaxxers dig in and try to rationalize their actions fairly than be taught from the tragedy and attempt to forestall others from making the identical mistake.
Fundamentalist faith and warped ideology are harmful medicine.
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