What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/vitamin-k-baby-autopsy-reports

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The really awful part is that these parents probably believed they were protecting their children. Misinformation becomes a lot darker when the consequences are irreversible.

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It really does. Mark Zuckerberg should be tried at the Hague for war crimes for weaponized disinformation.

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Not in the Galactic Court of Shitty Human Facsimiles?

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I Pray that the children get to be reincarnated as humans with smarter parents.

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Give the conspirationist baby a kkk shot I stead of a k shot. Parents will wait in rows to get it.

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Why are babies born without enough vitamin K? Is it something to do with the modern diet or it’s just a “defect” humans have had for millions of years that we just happened to overcome in 1943?

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You need bacteria in your gut to produce vitamin K, this takes a while. You can administer vitamin K orally and everything will usually be fine. The issue arises in rare cases where the bile duct hasn’t developed properly. There are other signs but one of them is vitamin K not absorbing properly since it’s fat soluble and you need bile to absorb fat. Administering vitamin K as a shot circumvents the gut and prevents children with these rare conditions from bleeding to death before the issue is detected.

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The base rate of infant mortality used to be significantly higher than it is now. It’s possible it was always there and we didn’t evolve it away for some reason

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I was just reading about this earlier this week in writing a post on how rat poison kills animals beyond the intended rodents and how/why it is treated with vitamin K. Rat poisons block the liver from metabolizing the Vitamin K into blood clotting agents. So it sounds like these babies are going through the same experience as something that’s gotten a fatal dose of rat poison. We at least should have the intelligence to get the readily available cure. Such as shame…

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This is a systemic problem, not the sum of individuals making stupid decisions.

The American problem with medicine isn’t because people are stupid or that conspiracy theories are powerful, it’s because mistrust of the American medical institution is 10,000% rational.

American doctors and hospitals kill people for money every day. Their lack of credibility didn’t come from Facebook.

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This is a perspective that I continually see dismissed in the wider political landscape. When we say “The American Medical System is fucked” we’re not just talking about getting hit with massive bills.

Ask folks with chronic conditions, who are seeking medical treatment, how they feel about doctors. These aren’t “tinfoil hat looneys” and they know the system well. I’d bet a good amount that the most plentiful opinion will be “fuck them”.

Women and folks of color are constantly neglected in our system. Nuerodiverse folks are constantly abused. Walk with an ADHD person trying to get diagnosed, or get meds refilled. Listen to a patient with chronic pain; with schizophrenia; with anything beyond the generic “anxiety and depression”. Sit with a pregnant woman of color on Medicaid going into labor.

Or look through the two centuries of medical malpractice against women and people of color. Have we forgotten the opioid epidemic? It wasn’t the CEOs handing those prescriptions out. Have we forgotten the horrors of lobotomies and mental wards? The latter still exist. Are we just going to brush over how the queerphobic “Lavender scare” was legitimized by the medical industry? Being trans still is 3 or so mental disorders; and any identity past that point was grounds to get violated before Trump’s reelection, and still is.

I don’t know where this fetishized view of the “ever-trustworthy doctor” comes from, but it’s as detached from reality as the Manosphere’s “happy 50s housewife”.

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