Washington Post: Chris Crouch was anti-vaccine. Now his pregnant wife had covid...

[NQAS]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/02/14/unvaccinated-pregnant-mom-covid-strokes-texas/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F360d3bd%2F620bdf8d9d2fda34e792a37e%2F5973112cade4e21a848a42bb%2F9%2F74%2F620bdf8d9d2fda34e792a37e

WP story about an anti-vaxxer whose pregnant wife got Covid, spent months in the hospital, had her baby delivered while she was out of it, and all survived.

Very touching. After all, how can you not be sympathetic to a dying pregnant woman who, along with her newborn, survive against all odds?

the anti-vaxxer is a cop whose attitude was, god gave him an immune system, and that's all he needs. His body, his choice. (Hmm, where have we heard that before?) At one point he questions whether he caused all this distress.

Some thoughts.

Yes, he did cause all this distress. His body, his wife's body, their choices. But when confronted with reality, what's he do? Go home and pray that God sorts things out for him? Gosh, no. He goes to the hospital and hopes that doctors can save his wife and unborn child, using the best medicine and technology available. Immune system? His body, his choice? Fuck no. Bring on the experts. (Oh, so now he loves doctors and their medicine.)

I just learned a new texting acronym: AITA. So, AITA here? If I cared at all about these people, I'd be pissed, and horrified, and angry. But all I can think about is the hypocrisy and the stories they will tell about this miraculous survival. Reminds me of the joke about Breaking Bad. If we had universal health care, Walter White would have gotten the treatment he needed, and he'd still be a science teacher. Here, so much anguish could have been avoided if this guy and his wife got a simple vaccination. A quick stop into the CVS. No drama. But, no. Your body, your choice, and you put everything at risk, then turning the science to make it all better.

[Claustrum]

1. So god gave him immune system, he shouldn't have gone to the hospital.

If he gets cancer, he shouldn't treat it because god gave him immune system too. Why would he want doctors or medicine when god gave him this immune system? Their picking and choosing at their will is laughingly bad.

[ProfessorGAC]

8. He's An Idiot!

That "immune system" argument is really stupid, because using the "god given" immune system is exactly what vaccines do!
It's not medicine. It highly specifically activates the immune system.
When anybody says this it's clear they don't understand the first thing about this topic.

[NickB79]

12. God gave me eyeballs

Therefore I think I'll start driving without my glasses, even though I'm half blind without them. Reading signs is for chumps.

[MineralMan]

2. For the annoyed: AITA expands to "Am I The Asshole?"

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

[NQAS]

9. Hey. . .

I had to look it up last week. Now that I'm in the know, others need to look it up this week.

So there!

[MineralMan]

11. Not if I see it first.

[rurallib]

3. AITA "Am I The Asshole"

[intrepidity]

4. You know, it would be a cruel twist of fate

if Covid in utero caused autism. I could imagine that happening.

[Mad_Machine76]

5. Another victory for

"Natural Immunity"?

[keithbvadu2]

6. Do you trust God?

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. He didn't cause all the distress himself; his wife was the one who chose to reject the vaccine

His opinions very likely influenced her, but she made the choice. This was primarily about her choice and its consequences.

[NQAS]

10. True

I tend to agree with you. His anti-vax commitment probably influenced her. Although, since they are so simpatico, it's likely he found a fellow traveler to connect with, so they were a matched anti-vax pair.

One more thing that struck me. His reference early in the article that he found that women were "playing games" in his early dating efforts after his divorce. WTF does that mean? Were they not fellow RWNJs? Were they "defund the police" sorts? Were they liberals? Were they not Christians, or Christian enough? Or maybe that just found him objectionable for any number of reasons. That apparently means they get the "playing games" descriptor. Sounds vaguely misogyinistic. If you don't hit it off with someone, so be it. That happens. As in, hey, how'd that date go? Okay, but we didn't hit it off. End of. But "playing games"? Again, WTF does that mean? I noticed that the article did not allow comments.

[Vinca]

13. Wonder if the child got out of it unscathed. That was the truly innocent party in all of this and

the one who could potentially face a lifetime of medical problems as a result of mom and dad exercising "their freedoms."

[Initech]

14. No it's not you that caused all this distress. It's your Facebook account.

The Facebook propaganda is killing people and tearing families apart. But are they going to be held responsible about this? No. Will they do anything about it? No. It's truly disheartening what is happening. The bad thing is that there's nothing we can do about it, because that would be policing speech and I'm not touching that one with a 10 foot pole.