Just when we thought anti-vaxxers had reached the deepest possible depths of stupid.....

[moonshaz]

.....they go and prove us wrong!

TN newborns get rare bleeding disorder after parents refused vitamin K shots
4 babies diagnosed with preventable bleeding disorder

A bleeding disorder in babies so rare that it typically affects fewer than one in 100,000 is becoming more common in Tennessee because parents are refusing vitamin K injections at

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[effervescent]

I really think that in order for this crap to stop, kids are going to have to start *dying*... So that their parents realise just how idiotic they were being. It just makes me so frustrated because these kids are helpless :/ I almost think that vaccines should be mandated at schools to try and stop this because it could easily trigger an epidemic in the future.

[ashen_key]

Unfortunately, kids Are dying - the trouble is, they are going to have to start dying in way greater numbers so it gets through people's head.

Again.

Fucking anti-vaxxers.

[jeweledvixen]

All 50 states have certain vaccines that are required before the child can go to public schools. It varies from state to state which vaccines are required, though. Unfortunately, that doesn't cover private schools or home-schooled children.

[nextdrinksonme]

And supposedly it's pretty easy to exempt your kids due to religious or personal reasons. I had someone who is anti-vacc tell me how she lied about religious reasons so that her kids could go to school. And advised me to do the same, since I needed certain vaccines to go to another country and my childhood vaccination records had been lost, so I had no idea what I did or didn't already have and had to get a blood test.

[jeweledvixen]

Yeah, religious reasons. Religious reasons to allow you to infect and kill other people's children.

I can also believe that people would lie about it because these anti-vaccers are so fanatical. It's horrifying.

[strixluna]

Yeah, there's a big to-do right now in CA because the waiver system just got changed (not that it's actually much harder).

And I'm in the minority among the home school crowd I run with because my kids are fully vaccinated. It baffles me that otherwise intelligent people (and they really are) have got this anti-vaccine thing going on. I just do not understand it at all.

[jeweledvixen]

I don't understand it, either. It makes no sense and now look what is happening because of their crazy ideas. Diseases once thought eradicated are back and children are dying. :/