> Instead, the anti-vaccine movement is broadcasting a different lesson, turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent.
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> The child’s grieving parents have given just one on-camera interview, to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit group founded and led until recently by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health and human services secretary. In a video that aired online Monday, the young parents stifled sobs, recalling how their unvaccinated daughter got sick from measles, then pneumonia, how she was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, and how she died.
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> The couple, who are Mennonites, believe their daughter’s death was the will of God. When Children’s Health Defense’s director of programming, Polly Tommey, asked specifically about parents who heard their story and might be “rushing out, panicking,” to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, the parents rebuked the intervention that offered the best chance of preventing their daughter’s death.
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> “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered after having received alternative treatments from an anti-vaccine doctor, including cod liver oil, a source of vitamin A, and budesonide, an inhaled steroid usually used for asthma.
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> “Also, the measles are good for the body,” the girl’s father said, adding through an interpreter of Low German that measles boosts the immune system and wards against cancer — an untrue supposition often offered by anti-vaccine groups and repeated recently by Kennedy.
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> Without evidence, influencers at Children’s Health Defense and beyond have reframed the tragedy of the girl’s death as proof — of the efficacy of unproven cures like vitamin A, of maltreatment by a hospital and even of a plot to undermine Kennedy at the Department of Health and Human Services.
I’d get instabanned if I said how I really feel about these parents
mg132 on
Some of the quotes from the parents in this case are just mind-bogglingly evil.
“Of course Peter knew why Seminole was in the news. He had heard that President Trump was asked about the outbreak here during a Cabinet meeting, and he told me that he didn’t like the attention. The Mennonites were being unjustly singled out. It wasn’t like they were the only ones who came down with measles. The coverage, he insisted, was ‘100 percent unfair….'”
“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” he said. “We don’t like the vaccinations, what they have these days. We heard too much, and we saw too much….”
“The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. ‘Everybody has to die,”’ he said. Peter’s eyes closed, and he struggled to continue talking.”
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rest of the world to americans:
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> Instead, the anti-vaccine movement is broadcasting a different lesson, turning the girl and her family into propaganda, an emotional plank in the misguided argument that vaccines are more dangerous than the illnesses they prevent.
>
> The child’s grieving parents have given just one on-camera interview, to Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit group founded and led until recently by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now the health and human services secretary. In a video that aired online Monday, the young parents stifled sobs, recalling how their unvaccinated daughter got sick from measles, then pneumonia, how she was hospitalized and put on a ventilator, and how she died.
>
> The couple, who are Mennonites, believe their daughter’s death was the will of God. When Children’s Health Defense’s director of programming, Polly Tommey, asked specifically about parents who heard their story and might be “rushing out, panicking,” to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, the parents rebuked the intervention that offered the best chance of preventing their daughter’s death.
>
> “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered after having received alternative treatments from an anti-vaccine doctor, including cod liver oil, a source of vitamin A, and budesonide, an inhaled steroid usually used for asthma.
>
> “Also, the measles are good for the body,” the girl’s father said, adding through an interpreter of Low German that measles boosts the immune system and wards against cancer — an untrue supposition often offered by anti-vaccine groups and repeated recently by Kennedy.
>
> Without evidence, influencers at Children’s Health Defense and beyond have reframed the tragedy of the girl’s death as proof — of the efficacy of unproven cures like vitamin A, of maltreatment by a hospital and even of a plot to undermine Kennedy at the Department of Health and Human Services.
I’d get instabanned if I said how I really feel about these parents
Some of the quotes from the parents in this case are just mind-bogglingly evil.
[From the mother](https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/parents-girl-died-measles-do-not-vaccinate/): “Don’t do the shots….” Measles “isn’t as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
[From the father](https://archive.is/5lOcg):
“Of course Peter knew why Seminole was in the news. He had heard that President Trump was asked about the outbreak here during a Cabinet meeting, and he told me that he didn’t like the attention. The Mennonites were being unjustly singled out. It wasn’t like they were the only ones who came down with measles. The coverage, he insisted, was ‘100 percent unfair….'”
“The vaccination has stuff we don’t trust,” he said. “We don’t like the vaccinations, what they have these days. We heard too much, and we saw too much….”
“The death of his daughter, Peter told me, was God’s will. God created measles. God allowed the disease to take his daughter’s life. ‘Everybody has to die,”’ he said. Peter’s eyes closed, and he struggled to continue talking.”
[Also from the father](https://www.newsnationnow.com/health/parents-girl-died-measles-do-not-vaccinate/): “‘The measles are good for the body,’ the girl’s father said, adding that the disease boosts the immune system and wards against cancer.”
These people are legitimately comic book level evil. In a better world they would be facing homicide charges for what they did to that poor child.