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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 171 points 5 days ago (5 children)

An HHS spokesperson did not respond to questions but in an email blamed the administration of former President Joe Biden for the rise in parents rejecting vitamin K shots. “Vitamin K at birth,” the spokesperson added, “remains the standard of care.”

For fuck's sake. These assholes can't even take responsibility for the results of what they're spewing.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"party of personal responsibility"

It's all projection.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 22 points 5 days ago

Seriously!!!!

Remember when most of their grievances were about an overreaching government that dictated how they lived their lives? Now that their party is in power that’s all they want to fucking do to the rest of us.

How does ‘personal responsibility’ translate into ‘I don’t want this and you shouldn’t have it either’?

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 128 points 5 days ago (6 children)

So when do they arrest the parents for murder like they would a woman who had a miscsrriage?

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 51 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Oh you know that only applies to the mothers and only before a successful birth because cruelty and hatred toward women is the point.

[–] Typotyper@sh.itjust.works 32 points 5 days ago

Also they don't care about people once they're born

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Arrest them? Its not like they let their kid walk a block to the store on their own. /s

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[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

What do you expect them to do? The umbilical was already cut, so they don’t care anymore.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 69 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I was wondering when the MAHA vaccine fixation would bleed over to simply anything that comes from a needle.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 36 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I swear there's a non-trivial percentage of new parents who simply want any excuse not to see their babies get poked with a needle and start crying. Combine that with the other MAHA, Jesus, and/or Woo nonsense, and especially with a fundamental misunderstanding of how much infant mortality the human population can absorb and still be evolutionarily "successful," and you get stories like this one.

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I had my son get all his vaccinations on schedule. Even though he'd cry and skitter around the room like a cat when they came in the room with a needle.

Next few times he got over it and eventually it didn't even bother him to get poked anymore.

I know it's terrible to see as a parent and comforting them sometimes doesn't work. You can't walk out of there just giving up. Shots really suck when you are little, but they are much better than dying from the diseases they prevent.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 19 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Some of the most successful pediatricians I’ve seen will poke the baby with the closed syringe several times before and after administering the shot. So that the babies get poked with it non-painfully more times than they get poked with it painfully. From what I’ve seen it seems to work.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago

Its like innoculating them to vaccinefear

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[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (5 children)

This is horrific.

The part of me traumatized by our society drives my cynical obtrusive thought: this will cull some of the stupid genes from the pool.

Maybe idiocracy is not inevitable. Maybe the stupid, selfish,fear-consumed will remove themselves from the healthier parts of humanity. Too bad I won't be around for the better world.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The absolute numbers are still very low, and these folks tend to have more babies overall, so I don't think there's much silver lining here, even a grim one. They're just accepting higher infant mortality for no good reason because they don't understand statistics or that evolution doesn't care about "perfect" or about any individual baby (or anything else of course, because it's just a biological principle, but you take my meaning).

You have to work with who gets born and just try to bring as much critical thinking and empathy into the world as you can. If anything "good" will come of this, it will be as cautionary tales parents and doctors tell pregnant people.

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[–] morysal@lemmy.world 60 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It’s wild how many parents are terrified of a vitamin shot but completely comfortable trusting random wellness influencers with zero medical background. And the really tragic part is that newborns don’t exactly get a second chance if the gamble goes wrong.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 days ago (7 children)

China recently decimated their (previously thriving) influencer ecosystem, simply by requiring that health influencers have documented health education, financial influencers have finance education, etc… China implemented the rule, and immediately banned like ~95% of all their health influencers. The rule targets both individual influencers and the platforms that host them. And no platform wants to stick their neck out and eat fines for some random influencer. So influencers who didn’t have documented education got banned basically overnight.

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Bro here on the local news during covid they'd interview idiots "im not trusting the government idk whats in that shot" and then they hit their gas station vape, amurica!

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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why do doctors have to listen to parents? If a parent abuses a child the child gets taken away but if he abuses a baby somehow it's ok?

[–] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

To a degree, parents have the right to reject medical treatment for a child. There must be an immediate threat to the child's life or health to ignore their refusal. A preventative vitamin shot is not such a case. Superseding the parents' wishes here would require a court order.

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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago

You know, if these parents believe they know better than medical professionals, why are they going to a medical facility to have their babies anyway? I feel it is just a waste of resources. Medical staff are stretched pretty thin already. Why waste time on people that will just ignore professional advice? Let them deal on their own, they obviously know better.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.

This is how bad the wider world of journalism has got, that having a human write a synopsis is now seen as bragging rights.

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[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 35 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I have four natural born kids and all of them had their Vitamin K shots, and I would do it again in a heartbeat. I trust my doctors’ recommendations on what course of action is best, knowing that there are risks and benefits to any medical treatment, and we do these treatments because the benefits outweigh the risks.

With that said, the article doesn’t mention that the risk of the vitamin K shot is that the newborn’s bilirubin levels can be raised far enough that they have to be treated for it. One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.

But it is surely better than seeing them bleed to death.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 37 points 5 days ago (3 children)

One of my daughters had to be blindfolded and put under a very bright blue light for several hours or maybe it was overnight, which is not a nice thing to see your newborn go through.

Completely painless and done every single day in any NICU.

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[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Right? At least those kids are being spared any further neglect and abuse.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 days ago

Yep. Sucks to be born just do die of preventable illiness but that's literally evolution. Maybe the reason the world sucks so much is because we put up bumper rails and allow the weak to survive.

If you ask any right wing smooth brain they'd agree, they're not smart enough to recognize it's them that lose.

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I used to feel this was a tragedy. Now I feel that those parents aren't intelligent enough to have children. They deserve what they got. The child died but it was probably going to of something else stupid at some point anyway. A century ago, before we had all the modern medical procedures, a large percentage of children didn't make it to adulthood. That is going to be the new norm for the parents who know better than "the elites".

[–] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

On the other hand, some supposedly intelligent people are so doubtful of the world that they become hesitant at bringing a child in.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

party of pro-life?

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[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

wHaTs ThE hArM iN My BeLiEfS????

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 days ago

"They will not replace us!"

[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The us is getting more dumberer.

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[–] el_muerte@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Makes me feel like a piece of shit saying it, but those kids are probably better off dead rather than being raised in an antivaxxer household where they're going to be indoctrinated with all that idiotic bullshit, forced to attend "parties" with diseased kids to intentionally catch their illnesses, probably have no chance at higher education thanks to shitty religious based homeschooling, take a bunch of quack medicine when they are ill ranging from useless to actively harmful, and possibly experience permanent damage from a preventable disease. Just seems like a lifetime of needless suffering.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You never know, I was raised evangelical and Ive managed to have a good life once I got out of there.

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