This Is Child Abuse -- Digby

[erronis]

https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/19/this-is-child-abuse/

Apparently, vaccines are the work of the devil. I'd say the anti-vaxx movement is more likely:

Six weeks ago, Ethan was like most 7-year-olds -- spending the weekend riding his new bike or playing Minecraft on his iPad on a rainy day.

"He just learned how to ride, he got the hang of it right away," Ethan's dad, Luis, said proudly. "He wanted to go outside because he wanted to jump on his bike...it was an amazing thing for him."

Instead, since late January, the schoolboy has been confined to a hospital bed with measles encephalitis, a complication that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain. "He's pretty much as if he was paralyzed," his devastated father, 41, told The Independent in a phone interview from his son's hospital bedside.

Ethan's parents decided not to immunize him against measles as they did with his three brothers. Three out of four of them contracted measles. Still, despite Ethan's ordeal, his mom stands by their decision. "We're not blaming God for this," said 35-year-old Kristina. "Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless.

"And we wouldn't change it any other way," the mom continued. "If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine."

I wonder if they followed Dr. Junior's advice?

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has leaned heavily on treatment with vitamin A, as well as "good results" from the use of the steroid budesonide, the antibiotic clarithromycin and cod liver oil.

That's what you're supposed to do when your kid gets encephalitis. There's no need for all these fancy schmancy vaccines and treatments. Sure, he might die but that's God's will.

It's all based on these brain-rotted anti-vaxxers who have convinced stupid people that they are dangerous even though virtually all kids in the U.S. since the 1960s have had them. They're just incapable of thinking rationally:

"Our biggest reason why we didn't do it is just with all the unnecessary stuff they add into it," Kristina added, referring to her beliefs about the vaccine.

"With my own eyes, I have seen the damage it does to kids who are perfectly normal, and then once they get it, they're not the same anymore," she claimed.

NO she hasn't. She's either lying or delusional. And if you read the whole story of this sick child's experience -- and the permanent damage it's caused -- it's a scathing indictment of her judgement. She would still not give the vaccine after seeing her child paralyzed? What kind of a parent is she?

I feel sorry for ALL the poor kids who have parents like this and they number in the millions. And now we have the U.S. Government backing them up with snake oil and misinformation. It's a travesty.

[Skittles]

1. parents sound like religious nutcases

fucking disgusting

[hatrack]

2. "We're negligent assholes, but it's really God's fault - CERTAINLY not our fault!"

[Wednesdays]

10. Oh, but they're "not blaming God for this"

"But God has chosen Ethan for a reason."

[Solly Mack]

3. Yes, it is.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. They'd rather have a dead child than a kid with autism.

[BigMin28]

6. Which isn't even

A logical choice as vaccines do not cause autism. Poor child.

[mercuryblues]

5. Not only are they willing to kill their child for Jesus,

They are perfectly content to kill other people's children for their Jesus. Selfish stupid fuckers.

[IcyPeas]

7. Why's he in the hospital then? Take him home. See if god wants to save him.

[Bettie]

8. She is a terrible mother

she doesn't care about her child.

Yes, I literally believe that.

I've seen it before, some very religious people see their kids as symbols of their status within their churches. If one dies, well, it means their status goes up for a while as the church gathers around them lauding their suffering and the piety with which they accept it. If the child has a long standing illness, especially with visible effects, then she's the darling of the whole church community....and yet, she can also be so cavalier about having other children.

We lost a child. Our children, even now, with the youngest 17, are treasures to us. We would never willingly endanger their lives. This woman chose to leave her children open to a disease and seems happy with the outcome.

This woman makes me sick...literally nauseated. I want to take her to a cemetery from before vaccines and show her lines of graves of multiple children from family after family.

But. it wouldn't matter because you can't fix stupid.

Yes, I'm mean. Cruel even. I can't stand the idiocy.

[chouchou]

9. "But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we're gonna glorify his name regardless".

Listen Lady, I'm better than your God. If I were a God, I'd heal your son now or weeks ago

[wnylib]

11. Disgusting excuse for a mother.

[patphil]

12. We're not blaming God for this. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing sometning.

Wow! This is one of the worst cases of parental stupidity I've ever heard of.
We fucked up, so let's blame God. But even so, we'd do it again because...God.

It's unbelievable.

[Skittles]

13. religious nutcases

child groomers and abusers

[twodogsbarking]

14. Dead children don't get autism.

[choie]

15. And we wouldn't change it any other way," the mom continued. "If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have

given my son the vaccine." Sick bastards.

[Intractable]

16. "We're not blaming God for this,"

People say "Thank God" everyday. But, they seem not to think it was their God who put them in that situation.

Religious people learn to be illogical, generally at a young age.

[orleans]

18. they shouldn't blame god. god, from what i've heard, gives people FREE WILL

so, because of that, she should blame herself and husband. they had a choice to make regarding that vaccine and they decided to take the risk of totally fucking up their kid.
they should be arrested for child neglect/abuse

--from an atheist ..."not afraid of burning in hell" (as ron reagan says in the commercial! LOL)

[pansypoo53219]

17. stupid burns. but the majority of the unvaxed survived.

[Bristlecone]

19. Always with the god excuse.

No shitty decision is ever their own. No perverse outcome by their own hands too terrible that it can’t be explained away as gods plan.

I hope the kid is gets better. But I hope the parents suffer for life.

[GiqueCee]

20. NO child...

... deserves to have parents this selfish and irresponsible. They should be neutered before they do any more harm.

[Buddyzbuddy]

21. This says it all,

"And we wouldn't change it any other way," the mom continued. "If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn't have given my son the vaccine."

Every MAGA voter that says they still support the Felon in spite of his major f*ckups. I don't have a week to kill, so I won't itemize them here.

The world would be a much better place if we just believed "in dog we trust"