Apparently a new tactic of anti-vaxxers is to go on Facebook and tell parents of a child who has died of a vaccine-preventable death that they are lying, or that the child never existed.
Not long ago, a 4-year-old boy died of the flu. His mother, under doctor's orders, watched his two little brothers like a hawk, terrified they might get sick and die, too. Grieving and frightened, just days after her son's death she checked her Facebook page hoping to read messages of comfort from family and friends. Instead, she found dozens of hateful comments: You're a terrible mother. You killed your child. You deserved what happened to your son. This is all fake - your child doesn't exist.
The comments were from anti-vaxxers. Their tactic:
When a child dies, members of the group sometimes encourage each other to go on that parent's Facebook page. The anti-vaxers then post messages telling the parents they're lying and their child never existed, or that the parent murdered them, or that vaccines killed the child, or some combination of all of those.
This is past disgusting. Reminiscent of Alex Jones’ (InfoWars) denial that the Sandy Hook shootings were real, anti-vaxxers revel in the vilest cruelties in order to push their child-harming, anti-family agenda. Alex Jones lost a defamation suit against him, brought by ten families whose children were victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. At least Jones’ defamation was public; the anti-vaxxers defamation is private and much harder to trace.
Anti-vaxxers are becoming terrorists. It’s time to shun them publicly and privately as the toxic people they are.