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submitted 1 week ago by Reannlegge@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

"This is a heartbreaking loss, and no words can capture the pain of losing a child. My sincere condolences go to the family during this profoundly difficult time,"

If I could I would kick every antivaxer right in the face because of this.

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[-] Sunshine@piefed.social 71 points 1 week ago

Antivaxxers are directly responsible for this.

[-] GuardYaGrill@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Children under five, pregnant individuals and people with weakened immune systems are at the highest risk from measles infections.

Source: The damn article if people took the time to read it.

[-] Sunshine@piefed.social 40 points 1 week ago

Canada has been having a measles surge due to antivaxx activity, that puts these 2 groups at higher risk.

[-] Eranziel@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Yes. And measles is so contagious and deadly that the only way to protect those groups is by vaccinating enough other people. This is why measles vaccines have been such a huge focus for the past 50+ years.

And that is also why antivaxxers are directly responsible. Their willful ignorance and self-entitlement exposes these vulnerable groups to harm.

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Most people have read more than this article can hope to explain.

Pointing at the most vulnerable and saying thats why they died from it is crazy when we can prevent it from happening at all with a vaccine thats been around for longer than I've been alive.

If it wasn't for idiot anti vaxxers we wouldn't be hearing reports of measles killing people more and more.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

Those groups rely on herd immunity to prevent infection in the first place. Measles is so virulent that the threshold is 94% of the population. The population as a whole is under that threshold now because of anti-vax dipshits. They are directly responsible for every death in vulnerable populations that cannot receive the vaccine directly.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, fuck herd immunity, everyone is out for themselves now, good luck children!!!!1!

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

maybe they will learn from these mistakes

otherwise natural selection will take its course

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

maybe they will learn from these mistakes

Nope.

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

“They believe she’s better off where she is now.”

This sounds like an abortion with extra steps.

[-] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

“My kid is dead but it’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.” Wut.

Well, I guess at least that child has been saved from the scourge of autism or something? Those people shouldn’t be parents.

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