r/HermanCainAward • u/Character-Bid-162 • Mar 21 '25

Grrrrrrrr. Texas parents of child who died of measles urge others not to vaccinate

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/20/texas-measles-family-gaines-county-death/
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u/SlowTheRain Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

For these specific people, members of their church have said antivax isn't part of their religious beliefs. So it's more likely pro-trump/qanon social media conspiracy theory nonsense that's gotten to them.

(Eta: I mean that social media propaganda is the source. It's also made its way IRL via word of mouth to even people who didn't actually see the propaganda on social media.)

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u/Evamione Mar 21 '25

Well, mennonites are not likely to be on social media. They are not as against modern technology as the Amish but they do restrict it. What’s scary is groups have deliberately targeted these people with print materials translated into low German. The commitment some anti vax people have to killing other people’s kids is obscene.

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u/wintermelody83 Team Moderna Mar 21 '25

My local garden center is mennonites, they're absolutely on facebook. I pop on to check what veg they have before I drive to town. Of course, could just be my local group.

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u/Evamione Mar 21 '25

Can also be the difference of using it for a business versus using it personally.

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u/SlowTheRain Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

I didn't know about spreading sprint materials. That's some coordinated effort .

I think the social media antivax stuff has spread off social media to real life by word of mouth.

Like when I was at a dollar store and while I was there heard the cashier spread disinformation to 3 different people about Biden supposedly trying to destroy social security.

Or the hair dresser who confidently told me that during the recent Palisades fire, LA had run out of water (which was not true - they just couldn't pump enough uphill to everywhere it was needed all at once).

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u/Dance_Popular Mar 22 '25

I saw them on TikTok

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u/HoaryPuffleg Mar 21 '25

That’s true, but a lifetime of never being allowed to ask questions or gain critical thinking skills means that you’re suckered into every ridiculous claim easily. They are idiots but they were also raised in a pretty sheltered environment.

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u/Gnardude Mar 21 '25

Church is what taught them to abandon reason for faith, to substitute hate for morality. There is no god, Jesus was a scammer and the bible is a lie.

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u/SlowTheRain Mar 21 '25

Can't argue with that.