Texas measles outbreak update: 124 cases, 18 hospitalized, & now the first death of a child, who was not vaccinated.
Tragic, preventable, & a direct consequence of the deadly lies spread by anti-vaxx grifters, one of whom is now the most powerful health official in the US.
it absolutely should be, but it gets into creepy shit like religion.
Not in Idaho.
I can send you some sources but I'm not going to unless you specifically ask for them. It is unpleasant.
Honestly it's something that a lot of us wish did not exist at all.
Many states in the mountain west have faith healing exemptions (or have had, until recently) but Idaho's is the broadest and by far the one that is most likely to stay forever.
I was looking for one particular article and I will update this if I find it. But this is a good start:
Starting point https://idahochildren.org/
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/mar/14/how-faith-healing-exemptions-remain-in-idaho-and-w/
The Oregonian has done a lot of work with this issue and how it relates to Oregon specifically https://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/2009/06/faithhealing_deaths_previous_s.html
https://www.aol.com/decade-inaction-children-still-dying-110000755.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7177248/
At least in Idaho, this is still a real problem, I don't know about other states. In Idaho, it is absolutely legal to kill your child through inaction but not to have an abortion even if it'll kill you to not have one. According to friends in Boise, most of the time, if a pregnant person comes in needing a medically necessary abortion, they are dispatched to somewhere in an adjoining state, as no hospitals are willing to test Idaho's awful "life of the mother" non-exception exception.
Sorry for ruining it for you. ☹️
Sorry for ruining it for you ☹️
yeah, I don't think they're uneducated and stupid so much as they are intentionally cruel.
There's a lot of cruel smart people. Playing it off as "oh, well they're stupid" is just a way to minimize their harm.
And I typed that without really thinking about how it applies to literally everything that's happening right now
@distinctm1nd @luckytran important not to pass judgment on individual cases without knowing specifics. There are children who genuinely can't be vaccinated for legit medical reasons, and there have been cases where those children died and their parents were cruelly targeted for blame by people who assumed they were anti-vaxx.
By all means shame anti-vaxxers as a group but be careful about assumptions on who's part of that group.
Dr. Lucky Tran 
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