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[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 128 points 3 weeks 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 71 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"party of personal responsibility"

It's all projection.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 18 points 3 weeks 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’?

Why did Joe Biden eat all of the vitamin k?

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[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 93 points 3 weeks 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 42 points 3 weeks 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 24 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago

Personal responsibility? Straight to jail. (Applies only to lefty commie pinko lib extremist Marxist Leninist terrorists)

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

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

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[–] morysal@lemmy.world 57 points 3 weeks ago (6 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 3 weeks ago (2 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.

[–] EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago

We need this AND it will never happen here.

China is clearly winning at modern society. The US is an empire in decline and it’s becoming more clear by the day.

We so fucked.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

IDK if China is really a great example here, considering how many Chinese doctors will still tell you that drinking cold water is bad for you, and garlic makes people horny.

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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!

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 52 points 3 weeks 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 25 points 3 weeks ago (2 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 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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 14 points 3 weeks 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 and they get poked with it painfully. From what I’ve seen it seems to work.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Its like innoculating them to vaccinefear

[–] yellerbadger@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

You're giving them way too much credit. It's as simple as what a credentialed authority figure says must be part of some agenda but what a whatsapp/FB post or contrarian podcaster/blogger says is good and credible.

[–] MasterBlaster@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks 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 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 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.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Even worse, they're accepting infant mortality because "master white race" and fear of being the minority in 2045.

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[–] VinegarChunks@lemmus.org 33 points 3 weeks 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 32 points 3 weeks 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 33 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks 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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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks 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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[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago (3 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?

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[–] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The us is getting more dumberer.

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

there is no bottom for these dumberikkklans

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago

"They will not replace us!"

[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

wHaTs ThE hArM iN My BeLiEfS????

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

this is a pretty poetic counterpoint to people who think Idiocracy is prophetic. nature doesn't give a fuck about what you think or how you feel, it is what it is. being an ignorant fucking moron meant death for the majority of human history, either for you, or as in this case your children. there's a large evolutionary pressure for humans to be intelligent and well educated, and the worse things get the more that will be true.

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[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oral vitamin K1 is almost as effective as injected K1, and most countries seem to offer it orally as an alternative to injected. Oral is pretty much just as effective as injected. 1, 2

The article doesn't mention oral. Is it still not approved in the US? (It's the same formulation as that injected).

It's very cheap. In Australia it costs ~9AUD (~7USD) for a single dose vial with oral syringe without subsidies.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Charge the parents with first degree murder.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Negligent homicide. They didn't plan to kill their kids, they did it by accident by virtue of their ignorance and ego.

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