I'll never understand these people.

They're negligent and stupid enough to have killed their child, and stubborn and arrogant enough to not regret it.

Antivaxxers, so-called alternative medicine advocates, and various other anti-scientific groups are a threat to civil society — and perhaps an existential one given their propensity for supporting populists.

#science #antivaxx #vaccine #vaccines #measles

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/measles-encephalitis-south-carolina-anti-vaccine-b2918500.html

Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’

EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain

The Independent
@rhys They can’t accept responsibility because then they, not big pharma, the govt or whatever would be responsible for an utter horror and most people would actively fight that self image.

@hardingar That's a big part of it for sure. This lady's abdicating responsibility to 'god's plan' — another senseless facet of this anti-intellectual populism not completely unlike the manosphere idiots appealing to 'nature', like there's just some fated things that must be accepted instead of preventing or treating.

It's honestly so depressing to me. Even infanticide can't shake their idiocy. Blaargh.