• AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      depends on the state law.

      basically, you have to prove negligence leading to harm, and if it’s a jury case, the jury is going to decide that.

  • Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
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    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”.

    • praxispotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Be careful. “Stupid people shouldn’t procreate” sounds like a good idea until the state deems you too stupid to deserve life. That’s eugenics. And it never stops with the people you think deserve it.

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        Its not eugenics it’s just a reversion to natural pressures. Eugenics would imply that there is an artificial pressure causing the deaths.

        The fact is most of us would likely not be here if not for modern medicine.

  • morysal@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      human beings are wired to trust other people’s confident bullshit.

      far more than they trust something abstract like medical knowledge backed by scientific studies.

      it’s not any different why the charming asshole narcissist is socially popular and the accurate nerdy scientist is seen as weird and anti-social.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.