The part that gets me to the boiling point is this:

Nothing out of the ordinary and he wasn’t severely ill. Then everything just came to a crash on an evening, he ended up in an ambulance that didn’t have the right equipment and he subsequently ended up brain-dead.

A long, sad and very compelling feature story ran about the Stephan family earlier this month in Canada’s National Post.

Don’t know, but I bet they like to talk about how autistics don’t have any empathy.

I know a doctor who lived and worked in rural China before coming to the US and saw several children die of rabies. She said it was by far the worst thing she ever saw.

As a kid in way back in ancient history, thousands of black/Mexican/poor kids in my city lined up with our parents in a local park... to get vaccinated. The vaccinations were sponsored by.. the Black Panther party because many poor folk without health insurance were not vaccinated. We were in a local park. Thousands…

I do have to pull you up on this comment, because you have made it sound like it would be more acceptable to let children die if the risk was Downs. While Downs is certainly challenging, and can be life limiting, I have known people live very happily and productively with it. To suggest a hierarchy of “acceptable vs…

Anti-vaxxers are the fucking bane of my existence. I have absolutely no patience or understanding for these dumb assholes and I have (stupidly, on my part) spent countless hours investigating their idiotic non-facts and arguing with them about their willful ignorance and their paranoid, delusional conspiracy theories.…

I think my blood literally ran cold just now.

And evidently, these people don’t believe in rabies or tetanus vaccinations. I don’t know of any more horrible ways to die than these.

Right? Like maybe you shouldn’t think you can make decisions about vaccines if you don’t know the difference between “reliable ( like vaccines are!) or liable ( which people who treat their sick kid with maple fucking syrup are)

Of course they support those murdering parents. There’s no other possible stance they can have. If you are an anti-vaxxer you have to be ok with children being incredibly sick and dying from preventable diseases. Same thing with pro-gun people, they have to be ok with high homicide and suicide rates. It’s literally…

Wow. Commenters in rare form here. This is a life saving development that we shouldn’t be excited about because BIG PHARMA might make a buck and at any rate, zika’s all hype, and hey, let’s be sure to ration it so that the kids of unscientificly minded people can be reap their appropriate karmic rewards.

Man, you’re out of line here. As a pregnant woman who may have been(or could be) exposed, tell me to my (Internet) face that I’m being overly panicky about the possibility of birth defects incompatible with life in my long-awaited baby. Go ahead, say it.

Yessssssss let’s absolutely make this about the vaccine “industry” and shady pharmaceutical companies rather than saving lives and preventing birth defects.

Unsurprising. I don’t doubt there were talks and they were squashed.

Even in this case filled with horrible details, the suspicion that he took pictures of his unconscious victim and sent them to teammates is really chilling. Were any of these fine young Stanford swimmers sufficiently horrified to take action? Apparently not. What a shame none of them had the backbone to testify…

the people (women) who see the signs before it gets to this point are usually dismissed because he’s “awkward” or “socially inept” and are encouraged to “give him another chance”

My question is why aren’t any of his male teammates talking about how creepy he was towards women, or why didn’t any of them do anything about him, or talk with coaches. We guys can also step in and do something when we see another guy who is likely to be a danger to our friends.

Not the least bit surprised that others found him creepy. I wonder why it didn’t come out before now—like around the time he was convicted and maybe sentenced, but it’s obvious that this is a guy who enjoys humiliating and debasing women.