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Summary

A father whose unvaccinated six-year-old daughter became the first U.S. measles death in 10 years remains steadfast in his anti-vaccine beliefs.

The Mennonite man from Seminole, Texas told The Atlantic, "The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," maintaining that measles is normal despite its near-eradication through vaccination.

His stance echoes claims by HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr., who initially downplayed the current North American outbreak before changing his position under scrutiny.

Despite his daughter's death, the father stated, "Everybody has to die."

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago

This is just so horrifying. Don't trust? Holy shit, his child is dead!

And what is this "stuff" that he's talking about? Midi-chlorians?

[-] mint_tamas@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Of course he’s not changing his stance. Doing so would be admitting that his child died as a direct consequence of his own actions. He will forever be anti-vax from now on, even if his life depends on it.

[-] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Isn't it just saline and the dead or weakened measles virus?

This is an old vaccine afaik

[-] CptCosmicMoron@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 days ago

So basically, he's saying he'd rather have a dead child than a child with autism or whatever malady he thinks vaccines cause. Holy hell.

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago

If you can accept the will of God that your child dies without vaccination, you can accept the will of God that your child survived vaccination, even it it caused something unexpected.

[-] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 40 points 3 days ago

Or accept that God sent the scientists that developed the vaccine. The whole "will of God" argument is always so full of holes - logic doesn't come into it.

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[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Made even more sad given that, as a child, he likely received the MMR vaccine.

These fools never seem to think about that part.

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Maybe, depends if he was born and raised Mennonite then it's possible he didn't. But that also means he likely did nothing to comfort his daughter as she died or else he would have caught it too

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[-] cool@lemmings.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Texans are a whole 'nother breed of stupidity.

It's impressive how proud they are of it. And scary.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

They fought a war to keep slavery. TWICE. The only state in the union to do so

Everything is bigger in Texas, including my middle finger to Texas twice

[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

He's a Mennonite, hardly Texan at all. They live in their own society practically.

[-] NoxAstrum@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I hope for nothing but horrible things for this moron. He should be charged with murder.

[-] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Everybody has do die

Maybe we make one codfin size S and one XL in this case

[-] Inucune@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

She died because of their willful ignorance.

Welcome to the anti-intellectual American experience.

[-] curiousPJ@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I wonder what the wife thinks.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago

Of course he does. He's desperate to justify his actions, because the alternative is to admit to himself that his choices killed his daughter.

[-] segabased@lemmy.zip 10 points 3 days ago

Brainwashed cult, and unfortunately we don't have time to deprogram these people

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