There is no tipping point where everybody realizes they should do the right thing by others.Some people won’t even do right by their own children, that’s the reality. People who know better need to speak up and demand public safety and vaccination programs, that’s the only way forward. Don’t take vaccines for granted.
These parents of the 6 year old who died of measles in Texas didn’t vaccinate their children, and they gave an interview with Children’s Health Defense wrongly promoting that measles isn’t so bad, even after their daughter died from it. They knowingly put their daughter in danger and she died, and they’re doubling down on the death of their own daughter.
NBC NEWS – How the anti-vaccine movement weaponized a 6-year-old’s measles death Anti-vaccine influencers see the child’s death as proof — not of the danger of measles, but of their own debunked theories. March 20, 2025, 5:00 AM EDT / Updated March 20, 2025, 10:14 AM EDT By Brandy Zadrozny The couple, who are Mennonites, believe their daughter’s death was the will of God. When Children’s Health Defense’s director of programming, Polly Tommey, asked specifically about parents who heard their story and might be “rushing out, panicking,” to get the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, the parents rebuked the intervention that offered the best chance of preventing their daughter’s death. “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”
I think a lot about how anybody objectively looking at our world should not see much difference between birds nests and apartment buildings – it’s all natural really, and you would think that religious people would see it all as God’s work – including vaccines. It’s strange how people pick and choose which things are “natural” what’s “God’s will” or what’s “meant to be” so arbitrarily as it pleases them. That poor kid didn’t get to choose what she thought about any of that and won’t have the chance to contemplate it.
My letter to elected representatives:
I want vaccines. I want research on effective vaccines funded, I want covid vaccines, I want vaccines covered by all insurance, and I want free vaccination available to the uninsured. I want vaccines mandated in congregate and high risk settings like nursing homes, hospitals, schools, and the military.
Feel free to copy or repurpose the contents of my letter for your own letters to reps.
Remember, the anti-vaxxers are constantly writing to your representatives. They are fewer in number, but if you’re not speaking up in favour of vaccines, who do you think politicians are going to listen to? The people who are in their ears telling them something, right or wrong. Don’t take vaccines for granted.