Mom Posts ‘Angry As Hell’ Rant After Her 15-Day-Old Son Gets Exposed To Measles Due To Anti-Vaxxers

Lately, anti-vaxxers have been getting a lot of negative attention online. And, according to Jennifer Hibben-White, they deserve it. Some time ago, she received a call from her local health center, informing her that her baby boy was exposed to measles.

Mom Posts 'Angry As Hell' Rant After Her 15-Day-Old Son Gets Exposed To Measles Due To Anti-Vaxxers

Image credits: Jennifer Hibben-White

At the time, her son Griffin was only 15-days old and too young to have been vaccinated. Children usually get their first measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) shot when they’re somewhere between 12 to 15 months of age. Until then, they have to rely on the so-called herd immunity, an indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune. Devastated and furious, Jennifer wrote a powerful Facebook post, and people quickly rallied to her support. Scroll down to read her message which has been shared over 604K times, and let us your thoughts on it in the comments.

Mom Posts 'Angry As Hell' Rant After Her 15-Day-Old Son Gets Exposed To Measles Due To Anti-Vaxxers

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Mom Posts 'Angry As Hell' Rant After Her 15-Day-Old Son Gets Exposed To Measles Due To Anti-Vaxxers

Image credits: Jennifer Hibben-White

Mom Posts 'Angry As Hell' Rant After Her 15-Day-Old Son Gets Exposed To Measles Due To Anti-Vaxxers

Image credits: Jennifer Hibben-White

Luckily, after not showing symptoms of the virus during the incubation period, Griffin was declared healthy.

People had a lot to say about this difficult situation

Mom Posts 'Angry As Hell' Rant After Her 15-Day-Old Son Gets Exposed To Measles Due To Anti-Vaxxers

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Tyler Duffy 5 years ago

This how I believe the government and society should handle the antivac situation. You have the right to not vaccinate. That's cool. But if you choose to exercise this right you lose the ability to access all social systems. No school, no hospital, no well fair, no food stamps, no right to mount a defense in the court system, no tax return, no access to local government infrastructure, no parks, no license, no access to roads, no 911 services. No access to any local government, State or federal government subsidizes aspect of our wourld. You should be issued a phone that can only call the CDC so when you decide you can't live like that you call them , they come out and give all your shots. And only after they concluded you aren't carrying and illness that could spread to the public, THEN and only then do you get to join the real world.

106points

Roz Klaiman 5 years ago

back in the days when vaccines were seen as miracle drugs, no child who wasn't vaccinated could attend school or go to public places. We WILL need to get back there as this continues, the anti vaxxers and others like them have gone backwards Complacency is what happened as we were free from childhood communicable diseases. I began my nursing career in the 1950s, I saw what those diseases did to children and don't want to think of it happening again.

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Uncommon Boston Premium 5 years ago (edited)

Not all drunk drivers kill people, but they are more likely to do so. Drunk driving is illegal, regardless of what you believe. How is this different? Not all unvaccinated children spread illnesses, but they are more likely to.

12points

Kimberly Irving 5 years ago

This needs to happen, EVERYWHERE! The WHOLE WORLD needs to get behind this! Anti-Vaxxers need to be treated like the outsiders they are. They should be segregated & not allowed any "free" (I'm Canadian) medical care, they should have to pay for it. I also believe that they should be treated as child abusers, because it is not THEM that suffers, its their children. I guarantee you the Anti-Vaxxers are themselves vaccinated, its THEIR CHILDREN that are not, and they aren't old enough to understand or to speak for themselves. This should be written into LAW that vaccinations are REQUIRED to live with the rest of civilization.

7points

Nia Loves Art 5 years ago

Why not just require them to vaccinate?

5points

Justine P. 5 years ago

Aunt Messy not vaccinating is not equivilent to child abuse and that is really insulting to people who have been abused.

1point

Alison Dorn 5 years ago

👏👏👏

-1point

Parmeisan 5 years ago

All this (well, except the phone thing which isn't really do-able) but also if you choose not to vaccinate your child. Whichever parent or parents have the ability to make that choice would also bear the consequences for that choice. (Nia: Because that would be a dangerous precedent for the type and level of power of a government over your body. You probably don't want someone to tie you down and make you give you blood every 2-3 months, even though that is good for society and (most likely) not harmful to you. I know, vaccines are different, antivaxxers are *actively* harming us all. Still, I think there's a line.)

-3points

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Bethanie Marshall 5 years ago

I have my certification in holistic medicine. And even I think every child should be vaccinated

65points

Don Flynn 5 years ago

Thank you for that

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Matt Hollis 5 years ago

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Christina Sersif 5 years ago

Why isn't this manslaughter? Do anti vaxxers not realize that their child can potentially kill another child? This is ridiculous. Vaccinate your kids! I have a mild form of autism, but am college educated, work full time, am independent, and guess what...I'm vaccinated!

29points

Pug Pug 5 years ago

People go to jail over Knowingly spreading HIV, why not extend that to parents that knowingly endanger other children with diseases the human race has developed a defense to. Also for those f***s that think Autistic kids are a symptom, I think they are a cure to the drama human condition. Have you hung out with those human calculators. Their only issue is dealing with emotions. I could use more of that s**t. F**k emotions.

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