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https://apnews.com/article/babies-newborns-pediatricians-vitamin-k-hepatitis-b-erythromycin-9126463f0cb38b9778fb77bc0d071776

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I remember the line from a Niven essay from “all the myriad ways” a compilation of short stories and essays.

“ think of it as evolution in action”

The super rich have deliberately promoted science skepticism, and they also seem to have this cult of global extinction thing going on.

Funny how everything they do just manages to make human life, more precarious, short, nasty and brutal

@ai6yr Yeah sadly I can directly attest to this. My wife also an RN works in a NICU and this is becoming more and more common.

The Vitamin K is critical to prevent bleeding and strokes
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/protective-vitamin-shots-newborns-decline

And the eye ointment? TO prevent pink eye or anything else (at that age it can result in blindness) they picked up while being born.

https://www.aao.org/education/clinical-statement/use-of-erythromycin-in-prevention-of-neonatal-opht

These parents should have to put money in escrow to cover these avoidable problems.

Why? If a kid has a stroke, the odds are long if they can ever go home. We can send INCREDIBLY medically complex home and our incredible parents can do amazing things (I am talking ventilators, feeding tubes et al.) but some cannot and these go to nursing homes. We become very close to the families because we are their ride home for every procedure, every admission and the like. The sad reality is this level of care will costs 10's of millions over the course of this kiddo's life Maybe these imbeciles should put their money where there ignorance is

@ai6yr negligent homicide

once we have a scientific understanding of the situation, it's criminal from there

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Back when I was still using Facebook, so prob more than 10 yrs ago, there were plenty of these idiots back then "questioning" Vit K shots. They could be found on the page for "Natural News", an antivax, conspiracy theory, just general woo peddling echo chamber run by the notorious antivaxxer and grifter, Mike Adams.

Non ironically the people on this page referred to themselves as "woke" and everyone else as "sheeple". It's not far from rejecting vaccines to rejecting any shot. Most of them rejected any modern evidence based medicine. Many rejected germ theory for example.

They were deeply into wellness, and the extreme body purity that demanded. So you can easily see why so many found a very short path from "detox shakes" to "mass deportations now" and white supremacy.

COVID gave these mostly fringe dwellers political power. And here we are, or you are.

Many of these lunatics are behind the so-called MAHA "movement".

Australia has its pockets of antivaxxer communities like Nimbin and Byron Bay, NSW. Unfortunately we're not increasing vaccine uptake anywhere.

Personally, and logically I don't understand why #COVID made people want to have fewer vaccinations. I mean, I do because of politics and conspiracy theories, but there was a non-zero probability no COVID vaccine was developed. We could all still be experiencing periods of (much higher) deaths and disability than we do now. That so many vaccines were, and continue to be developed surely would lead anyone to jump at the chance to get something that in another universe might have never happened.

#Vaccines

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> “I do think these families care deeply about their infants,” said Dr. Kelly Wade

Actually no, they don't. If they did, they would take responsibility for making sure they got correct information, instead of letting their egos make them vulnerable to quackery. Wilful ignorance is inexcusable.