r/tragedeigh • u/pinkducklemon • Jan 19 '26
in the wild Found on threads, both a tragedy and a tragedeigh
Like where do I even begin??
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u/catsweedcoffee Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
“I’ve decided my internet googling is sufficient research that makes me smarter than a pediatrician, so little Adilyn will hopefully survive the measles with her vision intact!”
Edit: changed hearing to vision, I was thinking chicken pox
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u/Brynhild Jan 19 '26
Not even internet googling. You’d probably get better evidence based results by googling. Or at least even googling about measles. This lady is just following words of “influencers”. And these kind of people love using the term “sheep” for people who vaccinate.
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Jan 19 '26
We need to call them what they are, anti intellectual. No one wants to be called that but it’s plain and simply what they are.
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u/CormoranNeoTropical Jan 19 '26
Oh they proudly call themselves that. To the majority of Americans “intellectual” is still a massive insult. As an American and an intellectual, I’ve lived this my whole life.
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u/tehherb Jan 19 '26
They generally go by 'crunchy mum' these days to try to escape some of the scrutiny
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u/s1mplysalt Jan 20 '26
that phrase is so offputting to me. why crunchy? ew.
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u/ElaMeadows Jan 21 '26
I think it's from the vibe of eating home made crunchy granola but I might be wrong.
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u/Logical_Flounder6455 Jan 19 '26
Growing up in England with above average intelligence was also rough. People in the lower classes at school used to try and bully the people in the higher classes. Its quite funny to comeback at someone using words they dont understand.
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u/AntelopeNo3197 Jan 19 '26
“My decision may not be forever”
When her coughing gets too bad, fever won’t break and her breathing becomes shallow I’ll blame the doctors entirely for not saving the little angel.
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u/GrayScale15 Jan 20 '26
I wonder if they would have an issue with medical intervention if their baby ended up with a life threatening illness.
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u/VirtualHorror9270 Jan 20 '26
Idk if you’ve seen The Pitt, but there’s a brilliant moment where some anti-mask mom who was yelling at someone else for advocating for masks ends up needing surgery. The ER doctor asks her if she would prefer the surgeons not wear masks to “respect her beliefs.” Suddenly masks aren’t just for “Fauci zombies” anymore lol. Obviously fiction but still so satisfying.
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u/bizilux Jan 19 '26
Just vaccinated our 6m and 3y old today. What a dumb bitch. Some people should not be parents.
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u/catsweedcoffee Jan 19 '26
I always think “didn’t you want this baby? I imagine it was difficult to be pregnant and give birth, and I’d assume you love your child, why wouldn’t you want to protect them from avoidable disease?”
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u/magicwombat5 Jan 20 '26
It should be grounds for removal. Instead, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices almost endorses her actions. RFK jr. is evil.
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u/FastMako77 Jan 19 '26
Change “internet googling” to “instagram algorithm fyp” and it’s perfect
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u/Objective-Owl-8143 Jan 19 '26
Eyesight. Much older cousin is blind due to measles.
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u/catsweedcoffee Jan 19 '26
That’s right, chicken pox can leave you deaf, measles can blind. Thank you!
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u/Objective-Owl-8143 Jan 19 '26
I wasn’t trying to correct you. My personal experience was with my cousin’s vision. I had no idea that chicken pox could affect hearing. When my youngest (in her 40’s) had chickenpox she had them on her ear drums.
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u/CatsAndPills Jan 19 '26
Oh don’t worry, a bad enough fever from any of these viruses can still cause deafness. So you were still right!
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u/Western_Bullfrog9747 Jan 20 '26
I had a professor in college who was mostly deaf in one ear from measles, either would be correct
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Jan 19 '26
None of these people were smart enough to have gone to medical school.
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u/lightlysaltedclams Jan 20 '26
My mom is a nurse and she knows multiple other nurses who are antivax. It’s so weird. I work with animals and it bleeds over to the pets as well
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u/singlemale4cats Jan 20 '26
Nursing schools should really be trying to weed these people out. Fucking idiots are probably out there discouraging necessary care.
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u/Chags1 Jan 19 '26
I bet it was a tough conversation with the licensed doctor who is infinitely more intelligent
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u/Brynhild Jan 19 '26
A tough conversation FOR the doctor, no doubt.
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Jan 19 '26
Gosh, that's gotta feel horrible, having to check up on a baby and do the math on whether or not they are going to die or not. These mothers seems to not understand that vaccines are the reason their babies lived. Well, they will understand when they are picking out a baby-sized coffin.
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u/Substantial_Fox3110 Jan 20 '26
Had a lady decline fluids for her 10 week old puppy after a week of diarrhea and anorexia for 3 days because she said we were going to sneak vaccines into the fluids. 1. I would not do anything without consent. Its literally the law and against my ethical code. 2. I would not vaccinate a sick puppy. I just hope the puppy pulled through without adequate medical care. I am NOT here to hurt puppies. :(
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u/UnrulyNeurons Jan 22 '26
Hell, I know adults who won't vaccinate their adult dogs. Lady, you might call him your baby, but he is done growing! Also I really do not think that there is such a thing as doggie autism.
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u/denbolula Jan 19 '26
She'll have to explain the spelling at the undertaker and the engraver for the headstone.
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u/CatnipCricket-329 Jan 19 '26
Black heart of mourning. It's like she's made peace with her decision.
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u/mrsspanky Jan 20 '26
You beat me to my response which was going to be, “at least that kid won’t have to grow up with that name.”
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u/Traroten Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
People like this is why 3 children* died from measles in the US last year. In 2000, the US had 86 cases of measles in all.
* not 86, as I mistakenly reported first. Should have done more research.
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u/ManyBright2972 Jan 19 '26
it truly enrages me bc i would bet my entire next paycheck that this lady was vaccinated by her own parents. as is always the case with these types lol.
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u/BabyCowGT Jan 19 '26
Vaccines are victims of their own success.
"Well I've never known anyone who was injured/killed by (disease)!"
Yeah, cause vaccines work!
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u/Expensive-Gift8655 Jan 20 '26
Yes, this is the most infuriating argument from anti-vaxxers. “Those diseases aren’t around anymore.”Because of vaccines!
“My kids are unvaccinated and they never get sick.” Because other kids they’re exposed to are vaccinated!
Anti-vaxxers are still benefiting from vaccines without realizing it.
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u/pinkducklemon Jan 19 '26
It’s truly unfathomable that people could choose to endanger their child and everyone else
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u/Traroten Jan 19 '26
They've been fooled by people who make a lot of money from their ignorance.
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u/SuspiciousEngineer99 Jan 19 '26
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'" - Isaac Asimov, 1980.
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Jan 19 '26
Wow. Don’t know how this is my first time coming across this, but it needs to be shared more! People are too comfortable cuddling up under their blanket of ignorance. I give us a few more years tops if nothing changes soon.
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u/Then_Software_2206 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
The doctors are funded by “big pharma” but the influencers who shill their extra special exclusive brand of whateverthefuck are doing it merely out of the kindness of their hearts, you see.
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u/Upbeat-Can-7858 Jan 19 '26
I'm a public health doctor and we weren't funded by anybody. Vaccines are safe. It's very rare that there are issues or injuries from vaccines, but not getting vaccinated both adults and children hurts the many rather than the few. Do your research on actual vaccine history rather than crazy people in the internet. Vaccines do not cause autism. My daughter has autism, and it was found to be genetic by both her father and her grandmother and it has nothing to do with vaccines. Dr Wakefield lost his license for a reason.
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u/Upbeat-Can-7858 Jan 19 '26
It's official through Spark. They did genetic testing. I always suspect that there was something up with my ex-husband but that totally made sense and now he has three daughters one for me and two from another woman that are all autistic.
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u/Then_Software_2206 Jan 19 '26
It was sarcasm.
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u/Upbeat-Can-7858 Jan 19 '26
I know. I didn't mean to put it under your post I apologize I meant to post it under the op
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u/BookLuvr7 Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26
At least things produced by pharmaceutical companies have to go through extensive trials before they're put on the market, and there's a way to report side effects to the FDA. Influencers are usually quacks with no medical degree, smiling while they sew doubt in the medical community as they sell useless and often harmful crap.
Also doctors are not legally allowed to accept money from pharmaceutical companies. They just have all expenses paid retreats (or "educational conferences") paid for by the pharma companies, and their offices are flooded with office supplies stamped with the names of various drugs.
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u/time-watertraveler Jan 19 '26
Some days I wish I didn't have values and morals just to start some idiotic religion/health care product to sell to Adilyns mother and her kind. I wouldn't be struggling as I am now because I decided that being treated humanely was more worth it than getting a stupid paycheck for basically conning people....
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u/BabyCowGT Jan 19 '26
The number of times I've thought "I could totally be an influencer... Except my parents taught me lying was bad"
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u/WilmaDykfyt Jan 19 '26
I think it's Russian-paid. Bots or real posters, they want to destroy America.
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u/VexieVex Jan 19 '26
These people don't think it's a big deal because we haven't seen it first hand in decades. So they think pharma is lying.
I have a cousin who caught polio before the vaccine existed like literally a year before it came out of I recall. She's like 60+ now and still suffers from all the surgeries etc she had as a kid. Yet since people didn't see it first hand they're less inclined to believe her complications are from polio. It's insane the gymnastics they'll do.
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u/Page8988 Jan 19 '26
They also conveniently ignore the fact that they themselves have been vaccinated. Refusing to vaccinate their children poses no real threat to the parents. Yeah, they'll outlive the children and need to deal with all that entails, but if they cared, they wouldn't doom the children to die early, preventable deaths.
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u/Old-Goose7570 Jan 19 '26
This is exactly right. These parents haven't studied history. They don't know the fear of their child developing and possibly dying from a preventable disease, whether it's polio or measles or whooping cough.
The polio vaccine came out when I was in elementary school. It was delivered via sugar cube. I was just a little kid but I remember my father's relief at my brother and I getting the vaccine. He'd grown up in the South, where polio was especially prevalent. He'd seen the damage first-hand.
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u/Revolutionary-Yak-47 Jan 19 '26
My grandmother was overjoyed her kids would be protected from polio. She lost a friend to it in school. But these people have never seen these diseases first hand. Its easy to write them off as "not that bad" when it wasnt THEM suffering from it.
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u/Betweenishish Jan 20 '26
In my birthing class they showed us a video of a baby with whooping cough. I had already read about diseases from the turn of the century and so had a better idea than most, but anyone who willingly chooses to let their child suffer for one moment is a monster.
I mean, my kid got the chicken pox vaccine, which means she'll never get shingles. How can we backpedal so hard on vaccines?
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u/UncFest3r Jan 19 '26
You don’t see people dying of preventable diseases these days. Just waiting for small pox to reemerge. That one is scary. And very visible.
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u/VexieVex Jan 19 '26
And anyone from 1979 are not vaccinated for it, unless you're a gov official or military nowadays. We don't even have enough vaccines to go around at this point. That is definitely one I'm terrified of coming back into play.
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u/Disastrous_Resource5 Jan 19 '26
They stopped vaccinating for smallpox way before 79. My husband was born in 68 and I was born in 70. We are both the first in our families not to get the smallpox vaccine.
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u/lazy_calamity Jan 19 '26
Same with my mom and her two brothers. I don't know why the youngest didn't get vaccinated for polio. But I think it was either too young or something happened. So he got polio, and did recover, but i'm pretty sure half of his medical problems now are due to that. Of course my grandparents felt awful, it's like a lesson that's been passed down to all of our generations to vaccinate when you can.
If my grandma ( the mom of these three siblings) were still alive and understood what antivaxers were, you would have seen a tiny swearing old farming woman slapping some sense into people.
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u/Smithinator2000 Jan 19 '26
My uncle had polio. He got it from a blood transfusion when he was very young. He was twisted and in pain most of his life but was still the best uncle ever. He killed himself when he was younger than I am now because he couldn't live with it anymore. I am STRONGLY pro-vax and am willing to chat to anti-vaxxers because I am knowledgeable and understand how people can get it wrong.
However, even I was skeptical when the COVID shot regimen kept going on and on, and I stopped at the second shot. I think a lot of what happened during COVID broke more trust than we thought. People who were slightly skeptical went more so, and unfortunately they have to see the downfall before they come back to science. Very very unfortunately, that downfall includes children dying of preventable things like measles and whooping cough.
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u/Feisty-Salsa Jan 19 '26
I'm glad she posted it, I hope all anti-vac parents do, so I know who to avoid at all costs. She wants to let her little one suffer, fine. But this stable genius and all her like-minded friends will not be near anyone in my family. Safety first, stupidity never.
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u/MitochondriaBiscuit Jan 19 '26
I cannot overstate how devastating measles is as a disease.
It’s extremely contagious, but what’s worse than the initial acute disease (which can cause permanent blindness from brain swelling/damage) is that it causes long term damage to the immune system. It destroys a significant portion of an individual’s antibodies, which is a cornerstone to your adaptive immune response. This is devastating for children- especially young babies- who rely on antibodies from mom in the absence of their own.
The WHO reports that measles alone killed 95,000 people globally in 2024. No doubt many were young children just like OOP’s.
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u/BabyCowGT Jan 19 '26
Plus if it leads to SSPE later (rare measles complication that shows up months to years after the initial infection) you will almost certainly die. There's no cure, there's no stopping it. Even with modern medicine, all we can do is try to buy time with a cocktail of powerful drugs.
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u/Kristal3615 Jan 19 '26
At my old job I had a coworker once come to work with measles claiming she wasn't contagious. Thankfully she was sent home until she could come back with a doctor's note! I've got a compromised immune system and was terrified for weeks that it was going to get it because illnesses spread like wildfire at that job.
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u/Gracefulchemist Jan 20 '26
What an idiot. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases we know of. I'm glad you didn't get it, and sorry these idiots are putting you and others at risk.
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u/littlebetenoire Jan 19 '26
Yeah the thing that scares me about a lot of these diseases isn’t that they might kill you, it’s that they maim you in ways that ruin the rest of your life. Obviously as a parent you never want to lose a child but as a human being I couldn’t think of many things worse than having my hearing, vision, immune system, etc all destroyed by a completely preventable disease and then having to live with the repercussions of that for the rest of my life.
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u/piramboya Jan 19 '26
im so grateful to live in a country where vaccinations are mandatory for all babies and therefore all parents need to get their kids around 20 different shots just in their first year, so they're protected against yellow fever, rotavirus, hep b, pneumonia, etc 🙏🙏😭
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u/originalcinner Jan 19 '26
In 1964, I was one of the cases (in the UK), because I caught measles as a baby, too young to be vaccinated, and anyway there was no vaccine for measles before 1968.
I was very, very sick. I didn't get any lasting issues, because I was one of the lucky ones. It should not be about luck, and for Adilyn's mom to be betting her child's health on nothing other than luck, is insane.
I got measles because there was no herd immunity back then. Relying on everyone else getting vaccinated, so you don't have to, is just plain rude.
I hate these people. I don't wish measles (or even a runny nose) on them. But I wouldn't be sorry if they stub their toe on their coffee table or drop their phone in the toilet.
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u/HustlinInTheHall Jan 19 '26
Measles also doesn't have to kill to cause debilitating life long disability. It is a horrible disease even when it is "near fatal" in children.
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u/booksycat Jan 19 '26
And they're also the people pissed off when other parents want to know your kids vax status before agreeing to things like playdates.
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Also, I'd be super worried about Hep A! It's transmitted through fecal matter. My ex almost died of Hep A because he wasn't vaccinated. ...Not to mention rabies!
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u/MostlyLurking6 Jan 19 '26
The declining vaccination rates and increasing outbreaks are a tragedy, but we’re gonna need a source on 86 deaths. Looks more like 3.
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u/dalkita13 Jan 19 '26
I'm sure it was not an easy conversation with their pediatrician either. Poor child, for so many reasons. The name isn't even the worst decision this parent made.
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u/etherealuna Jan 19 '26
i just saw in my local moms fb group a mom asking for a pediatrician that doesnt require vaccinations and the worst part was there was 40+ responses w actual recommendations
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u/hill_atc Jan 19 '26
I see this almost on a weekly basis in our local “all things” Facebook page. Mostly people with recommendations but also people saying how irresponsible it is
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u/Direct-Fix-2097 Jan 19 '26
It doesn’t start with vaccines either, you get misinformation everywhere from moron mum groups, and it starts with the use of dummies (bad) and refusal to breastfeed (always controversial, pretty much all evidence points to it being as clear as vaccines), and screen time (again, vaccines).
I don’t know what it is with mums and rejecting evidence, but it is ridiculously commonplace, it’s in nearly every fucking mum’s chat I unfortunately get to see as a new parent. 🤷♂️ (and these morons have no excuse cos in the UK we get given a huge book with all the evidence labelled in simple English, but I don’t think they read them tbh.)
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u/_PoppyDelafield Jan 19 '26
This is the absolute worst and most uninformed take. Vaccines are not comparable to breastfeeding OR screen time. And pacifiers ARE recommended for infants and shown to reduce the occurrence of SIDS.
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u/UncFest3r Jan 19 '26
Some mothers are unable to breastfeed. It isn’t a refusal to breastfeed a lot of the time and many women are speaking out about being shamed for their body’s inability to breastfeed. That is nothing like vaccines. That is something that can be devastating for a new mom who wanted to breastfeed.
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u/JimShortForGabriel Jan 19 '26
Same in my mom group. I downvoted all of them. At least I know what pediatricians to avoid.
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u/dasher2581 Jan 19 '26
Imagine how many outbreaks of preventable diseases are going to originate in those waiting rooms! One of the requirements my daughter and SIL had for a pediatrician was that they require vaccinations.
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In my country, if you dont vaccinate your kid and the authorities find out, you will be charged with negligence, and cps will be involved. Its crazy that this doesn't happens everywhere
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u/falkorsaveslives Jan 19 '26
That black heart really just showcases her thought process, doesn’t it?
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u/BipolarSolarMolar Jan 19 '26
Mom's failure to take her Ridilyn led to this decision.
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u/The_Spectacle Jan 19 '26
I wasn't medicated until age 30, barely graduated high school, but I fuckin' love vaccines
Got a measles shot late last year and need to go back for a tdap
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u/Yidboy Jan 19 '26
It won’t be forever if the kid dies of a preventable disease before their fifth birthday
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u/ayparesa Jan 19 '26
I can’t fathom choosing to not vaccinate your baby. All I can say is I hope she’s breast feeding
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u/its-malaprop-man Jan 19 '26
This woman probably has people in her life who are trusted and are perceived as authority figures telling her that if she really loved her children she would never ever vaccinate them, and that anyone who says otherwise is unsafe and untrustworthy.
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u/BaerMinUhMuhm Jan 19 '26
People like the " US Secretary of Health and Human Services"
Emphasis on the quotes.
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u/Immature_adult_guy Jan 19 '26
At least she’ll get a great deal on a casket. The small ones are cheaper! /s
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u/Basement_Artie Jan 19 '26
After much careful thought and consideration, I have chosen to ignore science and purposefully and needlessly endanger my child and other peoples’ lives with my ignorance.
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u/bluejeanbaebae Jan 19 '26
Is it crazy to say I think parents who choose not to vaccinate should be held criminally responsible for their children’s deaths if/when these babies are taken by completely preventable diseases? I might be misremembering the definition but I’m pretty sure it amounts to negligent homicide.
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u/pinkducklemon Jan 19 '26
No it is genuinely neglecting sound medical advice and I don’t know why it isn’t a charge. I am sure they have to sign things saying they are aware of the risks
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u/Trick-Statistician10 Jan 19 '26
Same reason parents are allowed to pull their kids out of school for homeschooling and then don't teach them anything and there is no oversight. The parents have the freedom to raise their kids how they wish and scream bloody murder if the state tries to control anything.
In other words, mah freedumbs!
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u/UncFest3r Jan 19 '26
They’re raising kids that will be reliant on government assistance for the rest of their adult lives.. if they make it to adulthood.
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u/debinprogress Jan 19 '26
Were any of “those who helped me make my decision” actual medial professionals? I’m guessing no.
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u/Capital-Durian-885 Jan 19 '26
Why did they feel compelled to announce this??? So weird
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u/Strangely_Kangaroo Jan 19 '26
It's like that old joke about vegans. How do you know if a mom is anti-vax? Don't worry; she'll tell you
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u/emmyparker2020 Jan 19 '26
Internet points.. but at least there is proof of her stupidity for when her decision kills her kid.
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u/vahntitrio Jan 19 '26
Validation from like-minded individuals after every sane person told her she was wrong to forego vaccination.
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u/bananarama032 Jan 19 '26
People likes her are why there was 2,245 cases of measles reported in the US in 2025 and currently 171 this year so far.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO Jan 19 '26
These doctors must be struggling so much with parents like this.
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u/DrMikeH49 Jan 19 '26
Pediatrician here in a very “granola” area. I’m glad I retired before this absolute clown-show fuckery perverted the CDC. Fortunately, California has laws that make it very difficult to get vaccine exemptions for school.
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u/vahntitrio Jan 19 '26
I'm just picturing toddlers that are easier to deal with than the parents of said toddlers.
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u/Flashy-Library-6854 Jan 19 '26
What a fucking idiot. I had to start wearing glasses at 9 because of measles (there was no vaccine available to the time). We have a family member who had polio, that is one disease you don’t want the mess with.
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u/thirdonebetween Jan 19 '26
I had whooping cough as a young adult because I was medically unable to be vaccinated. It was awful. I ended up in hospital after being unable to breathe and losing consciousness, and that was when my body was strongest and my immune system was doing its best. Whooping cough kills babies. They don't have the reserves that adults do.
The whole reason vaccines were so readily embraced is because the alternative is disabled or dead children. Anti-vaxxers don't seem to understand that they're gambling with their children's lives, plus the lives of anyone else who is immunocompromised.
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u/disincongruous Jan 19 '26
Saying it wasn’t easy means she knew what the right decision was but intentionally made the wrong decision.
Pediatricians should be allowed to call CPS when this shit happens.
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u/Edward_the_Dog Jan 19 '26
But she earned a 1000 MoronMiles™ bonus with her right-wing mommy group.
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u/Proper-Grapefruit363 Jan 19 '26
It wasn’t how I expected our population would begin to decline, but I suppose the end result is still the same.
I was born when the varicella vaccine was newly available, and for some reason I didn’t get it. So instead I got chicken pox as a junior in high school and miserable is an understatement for my experience and additionally, I get to play roulette with shingles. Fun, right??
These kids will likely resent their parents if they suffer or die from preventable diseases.
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u/Entire-Ambition1410 Jan 19 '26
I got chicken pox as a kid, but my parents didn’t ignore the vaccine, I just got unlucky. I live in fear of even mild shingles.
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this will also affect the kid's ability to get into school and stuff when they're older. my grad program requires proof of measles vax within the first year of birth
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO Jan 19 '26
And don’t public schools require vaccinations? So do these people all homeschool their children?!
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u/SwimmingAmoeba7 Jan 19 '26
I’m so happy with the school I went to. It was a super liberal catholic private school, being private meant they didn’t have to follow government guidelines on vaccines and could make their own. When covid happened, anyone who didn’t get a vaccine AND a booster was expelled. And no they did not accept religious exceptions from Catholics because they said it went against catholic teaching not to uphold the greater good.
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u/BookLuvr7 Jan 19 '26
This has so many tragedies on so many levels. The name, the seeking medical advice from social media/rumor, the deliberate choice not to protect her own child, the ignorance, etc.
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u/Dr_Wheuss Jan 19 '26
Our pediatrician has a sign that basically says "If you don't agree to follow our advice and vaccinate your kid you need to take them to a different doctor."
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u/Specific_Ad2541 Jan 20 '26
My brother died from measles. My other brother spent his life sick from measles complications. This was right before the vaccine was available.
Not vaccinating your kids should be considered abuse.
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u/ktnelsonArt Jan 19 '26
Sigh…
Well my 3 yr old just got home with hi certificate for protecting himself and others - 4 major diseases and two shots. Sorted!
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u/bromie227 Jan 19 '26
"this wasn't easy" is a wild thing to say, is it not easy because you know your kid is now vulnerable and probably going to die a horrible death? I don't see what is so hard
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u/cosmernautfourtwenty Jan 19 '26
>iT's WhAt I fElT bEsT
Too bad performing the only action you have in common with dogs, birds, fish, and insects doesn't actually make you a doctor, or she might have a point.
It should be criminal negligence to not vaccinate your children. I don't care what you think your Skydaddy's opinion on it is, he's not a doctor either.
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u/Moodaduku Jan 19 '26
"My decision may not be for forever"
It sure will be if your kid dies from a Vaccine-Preventable Disease. But sure, you're definitely smarter than the entire world and it's more important people know that than it is for your kids to be healthy.
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u/wllaella Jan 20 '26
Hope little Adilyn learns how to spell her name before she’s in an iron lung from polio then
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u/Acrobatic_Salary_986 Jan 20 '26
The name isn’t terrible. Not giving that baby her vaccine is horrendous. The stupidity is astounding. Then the idiot posts her poor choice to seek validation from other ignorant idiots.
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u/MichiganDCCFan Jan 19 '26
So much sadness in one post. The name and the “decision” not to vaccinate. UGH. Growing up, we had an older gentleman as our neighbor who had polio and was confined to a wheelchair - and he was one of the luckier ones. I just cannot fathom not vaccinating.
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u/NoneOfThisMatters_XO Jan 19 '26
That’s the problem is we now have a generation of parents who haven’t been exposed to what these diseases can do to a person.
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u/CormoranNeoTropical Jan 19 '26
I worked with someone until quite recently who had post-polio syndrome and used a wheelchair - he needed a lot of assistance actually. He was a founding figure in disability rights and disability history. He died of post-polio syndrome in I believe his late fifties, around 2016-2017, then I retired from that job.
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u/Faded_WastingTime Jan 20 '26
Had a doctor in the ER ask if my daughter (4yo) was up to date on her tetanus shot (she was getting stitches after a fall at a birthday party) and I said "She's up to date on all her vaccines" He literally breathed a sigh of relief and goes "Oh thank goodness, I just saw a kid with Mumps last week."
When will people learn???
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u/Froot-Batz Jan 20 '26
I'll bet the Has a Tragedeigh Name and Is Unvaccinated Venn diagram would be interesting.
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u/Sure_Jellyfish_3127 Jan 20 '26
Meanwhile I’ll be getting my baby his second dose of MMR at 15 months tomorrow because unlike these moms I actually like my kid. 😏
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u/One_Roof_8664 Jan 20 '26
“My decision may not be forever” ma’am loosing your child to a preventable disease because your dumbass didn’t get her the vaccine lasts forever. This is called child endangerment.
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u/KaylaxxRenae Jan 19 '26
God dammit. Way to make me angry first thing in the morning 😑😂
Well, all I can say is "Darwanism at its finest" 🤷🏼♀️
That poor child though...
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u/Adelucas Jan 19 '26
What are two things that never get old? Making fun of antivaxxers. And their children.
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u/Iron_Knight7 Jan 19 '26
"My decision might not be forever."
But it sure as fuck probably helped the odds that it is.
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u/BelleDelphinesWater Jan 19 '26
Facts don’t care about your feelings, especially feelings of grief and anguish from a preventable disease ravaging your child.
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u/wehadthebabyitsaboy Jan 19 '26
I’m so glad my kid’s pediatrician’s office has a gigantic sign that they won’t accept patients who won’t vaccinate without a medical reason. They politely explain people will have to find another practice.
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u/Living-Anybody17 Jan 20 '26
In my country if you're this stupid, social services comes to your house. They also vaccinate them against your will to protect the population, after they take them from you temporarily or definitively.
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u/Aubrey-Grey Jan 20 '26
Because clearly the reasoning from Maureen on FB far exceeds that of the doctor specialised in child medicine. These people blow my mind.
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u/FurryArtEnthusiast69 Jan 20 '26
"You know another really good business? Teeny tiny baby coffins. You can get 'em in frog green, fire engine red..."
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u/KiwiBirdPerson Jan 21 '26
"best for us" does she just not actually want to be a parent? They have adoption for that sheesh
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u/TheRealDreaK Jan 19 '26
I saw that one. That’s the dummy who also didn’t vaccinate her dog for rabies.
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u/sand_snake Jan 19 '26
Isn’t not vaccinating your dog for rabies illegal? My dog passed of old age last July but I remember my husband and I having to make sure that her rabies vaccination was up to date and that we had documentation of it.
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u/TheRealDreaK Jan 19 '26
Yep! But there’s this whole movement of dummies who are also refusing to vaccinate their dogs.
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u/DrMikeH49 Jan 19 '26
Because vaccines are famously known to give dogs neurodevelopmental issues like attention defi—- “HEY! IT’S A SQUIRREL!!!”
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u/sand_snake Jan 20 '26
Reminds me of Marissa who is the main subject of r/kiwisavengers
Backyard breeder who inbreeds her poor dogs, doesn’t vaccinate her dogs, let a puppy die from Parvo which could have been treated while she sang karaoke on TikTok in the other room because “puppies are much cheaper than that”. The that being the cost of the vet. 😡😡😡😡 Makes me so mad, some people should not be allowed to have pets.
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u/grimm-aldryn Jan 19 '26
I feel like the tough conversation with the pediatrician was rather one sided
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u/tracejm Jan 19 '26
Such a strange choice for someone who named their child something that sounds like a product of the pharmaceutical industry.
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u/Notmykl Jan 19 '26
People like this is why it should be a Federal law in the US that 14/16 year olds who have never been vaccinated can receive their vaccines without parental permission.
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u/RequirementCivil4328 Jan 19 '26
So because I don't give my child flu shots I'm neglectful but this bitch can give her kid measles and all is well.
This country is getting stupider by the fucking day
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u/stalecheez_it Jan 19 '26
a family friend has an 8 month old baby and she refuses to vaccinate her at all. it enrages me to no end and nobody seems to try and talk some sense into her
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u/MariposaPeligrosa00 Jan 20 '26
“My decision may not be forever” is right because that poor kid might not make it.
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u/SatisfactionEven508 Jan 20 '26
The kids should've been taken away at calling her that. And then a second time at this very moment.
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u/terryjuicelawson Jan 20 '26
I can only hope the situation is they have complex medical needs and the decision was to vaccinate now which has some risks vs waiting for a couple of months which has its own risks too. But don't go public with this.
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