Wednesday, May 03, 2006
The Mumps virus has returned to the Midwest. In fact, we had a documented case in the city of St. Louis. Also, just across the river in Edwardsville Illinois, there was another reported case in a local school.
So this family of mental giants has a daughter that attends the school were the mumps outbreak was found and decides to send their daughter to school. The problem with this family’s decision is their religious beliefs prohibit vaccinations. School officials notified the parents ahead of time and told them the child would not be allowed back in class until either she was vaccinated or until the incubation period ended. But these parents are not very intelligent, so they sent her anyway. As a result, the daughter was escorted from school and taken back home by the police.
Most teenagers are embarrassed by their parents. In fact, my son gets embarrassed easily and usually over minor things. I can only imagine how embarrassed he would be if he had to be escorted from school by the police because his parents are complete idiots. And it’s one thing to be a complete idiot, but to admit it to whole world and in front of their daughter's classmates is on a whole new level of stupidity. Just when you think you have found the bottom rung on the human evolutionary scale, someone like this comes along and opens up another mineshaft leading even further down.
First of all, let me say I am a believer in social Darwinism. When stupid people kill themselves it makes life better for us all. The problem I have with this case is the daughter is an innocent. Because of the parent’s ridiculous and potentially deadly religious beliefs, they are almost offering her up as a sacrificial lamb to the mumps virus. How could you do that to your own child and not be mentally challenged in some way?
I am glad we have religious freedom in this country but religion often blurs the line between sane and insane; this is a classic example of insane. I just wonder how you could send your child to school without any vaccinations when there was just a mumps case reported a day ago. Do they not love their child? Do they not want to keep their child safe?
If this child catches the mumps, the local district attorney should press child abuse charges against those parents. I do not have a problem with the senseless hurting or killing of oneself, but the senseless and hurting or killing of another is a felony.
So this family of mental giants has a daughter that attends the school were the mumps outbreak was found and decides to send their daughter to school. The problem with this family’s decision is their religious beliefs prohibit vaccinations. School officials notified the parents ahead of time and told them the child would not be allowed back in class until either she was vaccinated or until the incubation period ended. But these parents are not very intelligent, so they sent her anyway. As a result, the daughter was escorted from school and taken back home by the police.
Most teenagers are embarrassed by their parents. In fact, my son gets embarrassed easily and usually over minor things. I can only imagine how embarrassed he would be if he had to be escorted from school by the police because his parents are complete idiots. And it’s one thing to be a complete idiot, but to admit it to whole world and in front of their daughter's classmates is on a whole new level of stupidity. Just when you think you have found the bottom rung on the human evolutionary scale, someone like this comes along and opens up another mineshaft leading even further down.
First of all, let me say I am a believer in social Darwinism. When stupid people kill themselves it makes life better for us all. The problem I have with this case is the daughter is an innocent. Because of the parent’s ridiculous and potentially deadly religious beliefs, they are almost offering her up as a sacrificial lamb to the mumps virus. How could you do that to your own child and not be mentally challenged in some way?
I am glad we have religious freedom in this country but religion often blurs the line between sane and insane; this is a classic example of insane. I just wonder how you could send your child to school without any vaccinations when there was just a mumps case reported a day ago. Do they not love their child? Do they not want to keep their child safe?
If this child catches the mumps, the local district attorney should press child abuse charges against those parents. I do not have a problem with the senseless hurting or killing of oneself, but the senseless and hurting or killing of another is a felony.
posted by DarthImmortal at 1:17 PM
3 Comments:
I agree that these parents are just plain stupid. The hard part is respecting their religious beliefs. I have an Uncle who has never vacinnated his kids because of the slight chance that they could contract the disease from the vaccination, it's just sad.
I love the religious people that do not want to use advancements in medicine because they say God didn't intend it. My main arguement - don't you think he gave the person the smarts to figure out how to stop it.
Dumb asses.
Dumb asses is right.
My favorites are the bible toters running around the south who honestly believe in creationism. There was one guy that I talked to while working at a fabric store last year, who actually said that fossils were put on the earth by the devil in order to confuse us and that God made Adam and Eve and that their children didn't commit incest because they were the only ones there to populate the earth (his reason... not mine...). How the hell can anyone take people who believe shit like this and the no-medicine thing seriously!?!
So, if you ever want to see "the opiet of the masses" in full swing, come to East Tennessee and observe!
Fuck Knoxville.
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