This Is Child Abuse -- Digby

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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.