She literally lost a child and is still antivax. These people are beyond saving. The goal now should be to make sure they don't take the rest of us down with them
Changing your mind on the vaccines means accepting that you basically murdered your child. I'd be much more surprised if someone in that position could have their mind changed...
I was raised antivax, got the measles at age 17, and was still antivax for roughly 10 more years. It was my wife that convinced me to actually think about it, because she was adamant about vaccinating any children we had. I have her to thank for making me less ignorant. My sisters, on the other hand, are all still antivax despite my attempts to convince them otherwise.
What you're dealing with here is a grieving mother desperately trying to justify her actions so as to not add an unbearable guilt on top of unbearable sorrow.
There is no logic to be had here. It's all raw emotion.
I want to force that guilt back on her, and press down on it with that hydraulic press that got popular on YouTube. Maximize her guilt til she has an aneurysm.
1 in 5 is lucky when you consider that the mortality rate is 1 in 3. statistically it was more likely to be 2 in 5. But I suppose that the cognitive dissonance is so strong that it could be 6 out of 5 and they still would refuse the right thing to do.
"Every embryo has a right to be born! But once they're born, god has a plan for them. And if that plan is to suffer and die before hitting the age of maturity? Well, who are we to question god's plan? He is all knowing, all powerful, and all loving after all!
What omnipotent diety wouldn't create sentient life for the express purpose of watching it suffer and die? Especially when they get to watch those around suffer too!"
Hadn't even considered this... Probably. If this is the same family I'm thinking of, they're Mennonites, and it wouldn't surprise me if a culture/religion that conservative puts far more value in male offspring than female.
A few years ago, the disinformation wasn't strong enough to have parents double down on their belief that not vaccinating would be good, after their child died. Back then, they'd at least regret their decision.
Those kids do not deserve what is likely going to happen to them. After watching the rest die, when it's too late, while struggling not to succumb herself, will she change her tune?