God's Mercy

Well... the Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnuts are having a field day.

First, some news you aren't likely to have found in your usual newsfeed. The Aussies have sent a wide swath of idiot adults to prision for killing an 8 year old. Not with a car or hammer or such. For not giving her a necessary insulin injection. Kinda, sorta need those when you're type-1. And this wasn't the first time these adults did this to this child.

Elizabeth Struhs died in January 2022 on a mattress on the floor of her home in Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, days after her father Jason Struhs, 53, declared that she no longer needed medication for Type 1 diabetes.

Her mother, Kerrie Struhs, 49, encouraged Elizabeth's father to withhold her insulin, as did 12 other members of a Bible-based sect known as "The Saints," who were last month found guilty of manslaughter in a judge-only trial.

As a macabre side light, there's a kinda, sorta funny line from Tom Lehrer:

What with President Johnson practicing escalatio on the
Vietnamese, and then the Dominican crisis on top of that,
it has been a nervous year, and people have begun to feel
like a Christian Scientist with appendicitis.

Now, of course, if idiot adults choose to be idiots of and for themselves, good on them. They'll all win Darwin Awards, and thankfully so. Not so much for their kids.

And, as you likely suspect, there's a domestic case brewing in West Texas (where else? any southern Red state, of course), with a death of a child from measles.

Coverage of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is particularly low in Gaines County, where nearly 1 in 5 incoming kindergartners in the 2023-24 school year did not get the vaccine. Other affected Texas counties also fall below a goal of 95%, set by the US Department of Health and Human Services, that's necessary to help prevent outbreaks of the highly contagious disease.

"Ya pointy headed Liberals ain't gonna tell my how to raise ma kids!!!" I suppose not. On the plus side, there'll be a bit fewer getting to adulthood indoctrinated with this Evangelical Reactionary Radical Retrograde Right Wingnut shit. With no Medicaid, of course.

I expect, any day now, for Mr. Mumbles will order CDC to take down all that data. Let's go see... still there. Space on the page for data tables has only a Big Black Cross (hmm?) on both Firefox and Chrome, so I expect (but can find no explanation) that CDC has removed them.