Mother of Alabama measles patient attacked online for vaccination comments

[Eugene]

Source: AL.com

Mother of Alabama measles patient attacked online for vaccination comments

Updated 7:55 AM; Posted May 2, 8:36 PM

By Leada Gore

The mother of the 5-month girl confirmed as Alabama’s first case of the measles is being attacked online for her comments related to vaccinations.

Audrey Peine of Pell City wrote in a now-private Facebook post that she did “everything” to protect her daughter Emma before her diagnosis.

“I breastfed her for her entire life. I kept her up to date on her vaccinations. I took her to the doctor when she was sick. And she tested positive for something she was too young to be vaccinated for,” Peine wrote.

“She got sick because of the negligence of other parents who choose not to vaccinate their children. She got sick because the measles is on the rise due to carelessness of other mothers. Read the statistics. This disease was not something to worry about a few years ago. Now my daughter has it. Like the other mother who’s five-month-old was diagnosed in California, I feel like my community failed us,” Peine wrote.

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Peine’s post unleashed a wave of critical comments including people questioning the accounts of her daughter’s illness and linking vaccinations with autism. Peine later wrote she changed her post to “private” due to comments she received when it was being shared.

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Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2019/05/mother-of-alabama-measles-patient-attacked-online-for-vaccination-comments.html

[JustAnotherGen]

1. How sad

She's right. And she did everything she could, yet someone who was selfish might have caused harm to her child - permanent harm.

[HopeAgain]

2. Fuck the anti-vaxxers

Parents who don't vaccinate are guilty of child neglect.

[DURHAM D]

3. and perhaps murder by stupidity nt

[Blecht]

6. Child neglect and reckless endangerment of the rest of the community

They are a menace to society.

[KatyMan]

8. If you don't vaccinate your child

(Assuming no other health issues that legitimately prevent it) you should have to meet with CPS like they're parole officers, you are abusing your child and they should have weekly checks on the poor kid's welfare. If another child gets measles because of your kid, you should be arrested. If that child dies you should be charged with murder.

[11 Bravo]

11. With a barbed-wire dildo!

[DinahMoeHum]

21. Stupid people shouldn't breed.

[LArider]

25. multiple counts

[yardwork]

4. The mother is right.

[Brawndo]

5. Anti-vaxxers rights end where our rights begin

If they choose to persist in this irresponsible folly, they should have to make a choice. Compliance or ostracism from healthy society.

[Leith]

7. Exactly

A mother of a 5-month-old does everything she can to protect her child, but it looks like she must now check to see if everyone who gets near has been vaccinated. Instead of her and us having to face the self-righteous nastiness from idiotic anti-vaxxers, they should now remove themselves from those of us who don't want to catch their diseases.

[Brawndo]

10. If they have the courage of their convictions then they will do so willingly.

Something tells me that conviction might falter with the loss of societal benefits.

[redstatebluegirl]

9. The anti vaxers put the tea party to shame.

They are awful bullies online. They are antiscience not antivax.

[CousinIT]

12. I hate these anti-vaxxer assholes. This is a PUBLIC HEALTH issue and they should be given NO quarter

by schools, doctors, health insurance companies - NOBODY.

THEY should all be corralled and forced to live away from sane people who have the sense to get vaccinated so they don't get everyone sick and cause plagues that humanity eradicated eons ago.

[MarcA]

20. Agreed. They harm Others and like other criminals

they should be separated from the rest of society.

[Bradshaw3]

13. The rejection of science is as distrubing as the assault on democracy

The two are probably related insofar as the embrace of pseudoscience, fake news, and conspiracy theories. They are also related to the asault on our public educational systems from the right, although the anti-vaxxers seem to be as prevalent or more so among liberal-leaning people. It is all part of a scary and disheartening trend.

[jmowreader]

14. What I want to know about antivaxxers

According to antivax dogma, any child who gets vaccinated will soon get autism.

The vast majority of antivaxers are themselves vaccinated, and they don't have autism.

How the hell does that happen?

As to the autism thing, I suspect that if you applied modern diagnostic practices to kids from 50 years ago, you'd find the autism rates then would be similar to those today. In other words, we're looking for it now and weren't then, and they call more things autism now.

[xmas74]

26. It has.

I work in the MR/DD field. I watched charts change over time from a diagnosis of one thing to autism.

[barbtries]

15. she's right.

if i'd come across her post i would have commented positively.

[murielm99]

16. This poor woman is right.

I despise the anti-vaxxers.

Let their kids be quarantined until hell freezes over. It is not their fault, either, that they have to pay a price for having ignorant parents. But what other choice is there?

[Aristus]

17. Thank you all for your strong comments against anti-vaxxers. You give me hope.

For all of us who work in the medical profession, let's keep the heat on from inside the clinic. For everyone else, thank you for keeping the heat on the anti-vaxxers outside the clinic.

Two or three times a year, I have to go eighteen rounds with some concern-trolling anti-vaxxer right here on DU, where people are supposed to know better, and I get called a lot of names in the process. but my DU friends always come to my defense, and I appreciate it.

[BigmanPigman]

18. Dear Putin, Thank you for all the bots, etc.

that has led to the increased spread of this disease in our population as well as creating more divides in our society. I hope you and you pal tRump both get measles and drop dead. Actually I hope you both drop dead through any means possible.
Sincerely, BigmanPigman

[Hekate]

19. I hope her baby recovers well. Measles is NOT BENIGN. nt

[Honeycombe8]

22. She should not be attacked for statements like that.

Social media is getting to be ....I don't know.

[Grins]

23. "...and linking vaccinations with autism." A question.

“... questioning the accounts of her daughter’s illness and linking vaccinations with autism.”

A question posed by someone:

“If we came up with a vaccination for autism, would the anti-vaxxers take it?”

[xmas74]

24. I fight with them all the time on social media.

One of their little ringleaders also enjoys contacting posters employers in an effort to get them fired. Today they bragged about calling CPS about one of their social workers who said she thought refusing vaccinations without a medical reason was a form of neglect.

I can't stand them. They actually paid money to run a background on me and then reported me at work. Idiots didn't realize I'm in a union.

[johannsyah]

27. vaccination doesn't cause autism

the mother has done the right thing.