US Politics on Sidechat | As a premed student it’s just awfully sad to see people say things like this. A 6-month-old baby just died in Pennsylvania from measles, likely because their parents had the same rhetoric. Scientific innovation exists for a reason.

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US Politics 9w

As a premed student it’s just awfully sad to see people say things like this. A 6-month-old baby just died in Pennsylvania from measles, likely because their parents had the same rhetoric. Scientific innovation exists for a reason.

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Anonymous 9w

People don’t realize how bad these illnesses are for children. And adult or teenager can get sick and it be bad, but children and babies totter between life and death with something as simple as a cold. We don’t have the collective memory of sick children the way older generations and people from underdeveloped nations do. We take our privileges for granted, some people are so privileged they can opt out of the benefits….

Anonymous 9w

It gets way worse when you’re a med student and you have to try to work with these parents. Genuinely really frustrating and demoralizing

Anonymous 9w

The cause of death of the girl was cited to be a torn spleen. Bearing false witness to mislead people (even if that wasn’t your intent) will lead you to a life where people bear false witness against you. (Happened to me)

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Anonymous

#1 9w

Vaccines are truly medical miracles taken for granted. So many people have died of diseases we now routinely trivialize because like you said, newer generations don’t remember what it was like.

Anonymous

#2 9w

I’m not looking forward to it… honestly, it’s been horrifying seeing a large part of the country turn its back on science as a whole.

Anonymous

OP 9w

like, I remember my baby brother having colic, I couldn’t imagine the crying if he was sick with something worse! or something that made him stop crying! Even worse! My dad remembers kids getting POLIO, everyone gets pissed off at the covid vaccine and their parents and grandparents were told “hey your kids are getting vaccines for free” and they were happy for it. Crazy!

Anonymous

#1 9w

I remember praying for a vaccine every day when COVID happened. My mom is a frontline healthcare worker and witnessed so many of her patients and coworkers dying. With elderly grandparents at home, I could barely step out of the house for fear that I’d infect them. I remember seeing corpses being loaded onto U-Haul on TV and every clinic being overrun. The vaccine was a lifeline, and thank god for the researchers who developed it.

Anonymous

#3 9w

“Bearing false witness”

Anonymous

#3 9w

Does this change the fact that we have a record number of measles infections and deaths since the vaccine was implemented due to altered vaccination policies? https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-cases-cdc-pennsylvania-deaths-rfk-jr-rcna596091 The baby was unvaccinated and measles disease progression was complicated by a genetic disorder called Amish microcephaly. Nothing that I said in my post was false.

Anonymous

#4 9w

I’ll say it again. Bearing. False. Witness.

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Anonymous

OP 9w

I have yet to see anyone with measles. And normally I would say “forgive me for not trusting screens or pieces of paper” to map out reality when those two things have been the primary means of deception, especially in recent years, but frankly, I don’t want your forgiveness.

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Anonymous

#3 8w

“I don’t see it so it doesn’t exist”