I have gotten used to anti-vaxxers spouting a lot bullcrap about vaccinations. That they cause autism. That "natural immunity"gained by your kids getting the measles, mumps and rubella is better than prevention through vaccines. That childhood diseases are no big thing, even though people die whenever there is an outbreak. That vaccinations are poison. That the government requires them because it is owned by Big Pharma.
But this latest tactic is beyond the pale and unforgivable.
Their current tactic is to find pro-vax parents who have lost children to disease, and verbally attack them on their Facebook page or Twitter page.
Imagine losing your child to the flu, because you hadn't yet gotten them to the doctors for their flu shot. Imagine having to plan a funeral for a two or three year-old. I had to plan a funeral for a seemingly healthy 29 year-old husband who died from an undiagnosed heart issue. That was horrible beyond belief. But for a mother who carried this child inside her own body for nine months to have to do that? I can imagine it, but only because of my own loss 35 years ago.
What does it say about you if you would even consider doing something like that? Telling a mother she deserved it because she believes in vaccination? What level of gratuitous cruelty would it take to write that to a grieving mother?
I really cannot write any further. This behavior crosses a line. Before, I could regard the anti-vaxx crowd, to which my obnoxious niece belongs, as just willfully ignorant. As selfishly uncaring about helping those infants too young for vaccinations or people with damaged immune systems who can't be vaccinated,on the infinitesimally small possibility that something might possibly in a blue moon on Thursday the 367th day of the year. Stupid, selfish, but not evil or cruel.
I only know there is a special circle in Hell, if there is a Hell, reserved just for them.
Go to CNN. Their investigation is under the Health section. Read it. I would link to it, but I can't figure out how to do so with my Kindle. If someone else can, please link to it.