Who knows which lies I would tell myself if one of my kids died a preventable death? Trauma often wires us to be even more outwardly self-destructive in an effort to defend against what's going on inside of us. Denial is a hell of a drug, and I try not to judge traumatized people, but... arrgghh
From the parents of the unvaxxed 6-yr-old who died of measles:
“Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.”