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Anti-vaxx mom whose daughter died from measles says disease 'wasn't that bad' (www.latintimes.com)

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The parents of a 6-year-old unvaccinated Texas girl who died from measles stated in an interview that the disease “wasn’t that bad” despite her death.

The family belongs to a Mennonite community and remains opposed to the MMR vaccine, citing perceived risks. Four other siblings contracted milder cases.

Health officials and public figures, including RFK Jr., urged vaccination to curb the outbreak. The girl’s symptoms worsened to pneumonia before she died in intensive care.

The case marks the first U.S. child measles death in nearly a decade.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

The family belongs to a Mennonite community

Well, yeah...

They're an extremist religious cult...

They don't think their kid is dead and gone, they think "Sky Daddy called our angel home".

This is what happens when people are convinced reality doesn't matter because they have eternity in the afterlife.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

And yet they won't fuq off there themselves!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 hours ago

Like the other person said, what seperates them from regular death cults is rules against suicide.

Like, my mom's just regular crazy Christian. She's been ready to go for over a decade and would be happy about it. But if she takes direct action to die, she goes to the bad place.

So like, during COVID she was leaving the house more than pre-Covid, just intentionally doing dumb shit because putting yourself in a dangerous situation where you might die...

Still isn't direct action

People that want to die, are willing to die over literally anything, are incredibly dangerous for a society.

They'll pull a gun because you waited too long at a green light and be 100% ok dying in a highspeed shootout. Because as long as they don't kill themselves, they believe they're going straight to heaven

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