South Carolina: yMom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: 'I still wouldn't have given my son th

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

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Mom of 7-year-old hospitalized with brain swelling from measles: ‘I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine’


EXCLUSIVE: South Carolina parents living in the state’s measles epicenter tell Rhian Lubin of their devastation after their unvaccinated 7-year-old son, Ethan, developed encephalitis, a complication from the virus that causes swelling and inflammation in the brain
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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.

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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.”

[Permanut]

1. Child abuse.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. Yeah

[HeartsCanHope]

14. I believe this, too.

My mother babysit a little girl whose mother contracted measles while she was carrying her first daughter.

Her daughter was born blind, and was severely handicapped. Because of Julie, my son got every vaccine they offered!

I can't imagine risking the well being of any child, let alone 4 children! How horrible that Ethan has to pay the price

for their recklessness.

[DFW]

16. My thoughts exactly. n/t

[Justice matters.]

17. Attempted murder. nt

[efhmc]

51. It is.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

43. Yes.

[wcmagumba]

2. The number of idiots in this country always amazes me...the lady will let her kid die because of Gawwwd...

[pat_k]

12. God told her not to vaccinate her son? Or has someone elevated Bobby to status as an emissary of God?

[durablend]

37. Their "god" is Donald J. Trump

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

44. She is such a gross POS

[Takket]

3. "We're not blaming God for this"

Good, as well you shouldn't. No one other than yourselves is responsible for torturing your child.

It really says something about people that they would rather cause their own child horrific pain and suffering, and possibly death, rather than consider the idea that the political tribe they have chosen to join might be incorrect.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

45. She has some nerve dragging God into what she did

[Skittles]

4. religious freaks

child groomers and abusers

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

46. Indeed!

[SheltieLover]

5. Uneducable moran.

[Figarosmom]

7. Geez.

I'd be scared to send my kid to school now days. Some of those vaccines are for very serious diseases.

[yellowdogintexas]

15. Indeed! I am old enough that I had all those serious diseases and measles made me

extremely ill. I did not have any of the bad side effects but it is the sickest I remember being

Chickenpox, Measles, mumps , rubella. My daughter and her daughter have had all the vaccines (except my daughter did have chickenpox since the vax had not been made available.

[Coventina]

8. Darwin in action, sadly..... n/t

[Enter stage left]

9. Mom...4th grade drop out, probably pregnant at the time.

[czarjak]

10. Lock. Her. Up?

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

47. Yes. Yes. Yes.

[Ilsa]

11. It sounds like the brothers missed getting their boosters. nt

[cstanleytech]

13. I wonder how people like this even manage to figure out how to breed.

[3catwoman3]

18. Unfortunately, the ability to juxtapose genitalia requires no intelligent thought.

Pretty early in my 45 year career as a peds nurse practitioner, people like this idiot were one of the reasons found myself wishing that becoming a parent required some sort of licensing or screening for basic competence.

[stumpysbear]

19. It amazes me that these people are all about "God's plan"

but never for even a split second consider that God’s plan was to bestow on humanity the knowledge and creativity to practice medicine and cure disease. Like it’s God’s gift that little Johnny is a great quarterback due to the Lord’s blessings, but the team of doctors and scientists who made the vaccine that would have prevented this are somehow working against Gods will? People are nuts, man.

[Bettie]

27. They're the people who would drown in a flood

waiting for "god" to save them after a couple of boats and a helicopter came to evacuate them....old joke, but less funny every year as we see these people navigate the world faithful to nothing but idiocy.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

48. Spot on!

[malaise]

20. And yet a parent who left a chemical in a soda bottle would be charged for manslaughter

If the child drank it and died.
These are the folks who love Donvict.

[Vinca]

21. She must really hate her son. If she's got other kids, they ought to be taken away.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

49. Right?

[bluesbassman]

22. Self imposed martyrdom that she had to "sacrifice" her son to glorify god.

Hubris and stupidity are a dangerous combination.

[maptap22]

23. God sent the frickin' vaccine you idiot!

God helps those who help themselves...the magic man in the sky sent the scientists who invented the vaccine. Why don't they get it?

[Norbert]

24. God gave us everything we needed,

a functioning brain and people who have dedicated their lives to become doctors and scientists.

If your functioning brain gets clouded over so much that slick and corrupt politicians make much more sense than doctors & scientists; when you think Dr Fauchi belongs in jail or executed while RFK Jr is a breath of fresh air for our health. If you are willing to offer you child up for the cause, even though it was probably explained what the risks are, then there is very little God can do about this.

I feel horrible for this child. He may never be the same, if the child manages to live through this.

[Buckeyeblue]

25. The mother is most likely vaccinated. Wonder if she blames the vaccine for her own personal stupidity?

[PJMcK]

26. These parents are stupid

Blind faith has put their child’s life at risk. Their faith, which has no basis in facts, is mindless , moronic and self-destructive.

The mother is incapable of learning but thinks she understands the universe because of an Iron Age mythology. Pathetic.

[Goonch]

28. ;-{)......

[Norrrm]

29. You're an ahole, lady. God provided the vaccine. You are to blame!

(Reinforcement for comments already made)

[hatrack]

30. COUGH Next On Fox - Crowdfunding Your Child's Funeral!!! COUGH

[LonePirate]

31. Prosecute the parents. We are long past the point of where we need to start calling religion the bullshit that it is.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

50. Absolutely!

[Ferrets are Cool]

32. If you believe so fervently in your fucking god, why did you even send the child to the hospital?

Why not just pray that shit away? FUCK these assholes.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

42. Right?

[lostincalifornia]

33. It has nothing to do with god, it is all on these ignorant jackass parents. They caused this sufferring and to their

child.

The measles vaccine is one of the most effective vaccines available.

There is no vaccine for STUPIDITY THOUGH.

[Pisces]

34. There is no reasoning with religious certainty. It's a circular argument that will end nowhere.

[Wonder Why]

35. I'm sorry your mother wasn't that stupid when you were born, Kristina!

[Tree Lady]

36. That is child endangerment

And parent should be held accountable. When a simple shot could have prevented it that's practically murder because they are saying no matter what they would not do it.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

41. She absolutely should be held accountable.

[Rebl2]

38. So she

is okay with making her child suffer through this. Now she may have brain damaged child now that she will have to deal with for years to come.

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

40. Exactly what she is doing

[riversedge]

54. Her God is OK with it, so she is ok with the suffering child. damn!!

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

39. Absolutely vile

[JBTaurus83]

52. She's going to stick to that

Because she doesn’t want to admit she possibly could murder her own child.

[awesomerwb1]

53. What makes these crazies thing God is against vaccines?

Crazy stuff.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

55. Good question..why isnt God, by their way of thinking, also against toothpaste and aspirin?

[NoMoreRepugs]

56. If "God" tells Kristina to step in front of a speeding train what's this "good Christian nitwit" gonna do?

[RockRaven]

57. When I say "antivaxxers are moral degenerates" I am talking about people like her.

This is some deranged psycho shit that cannot be excused by appeals to tolerance of different religious persuasions. Fuck that.