#clobes

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Imagine Loki having a teenage love interest that Thor woos from him on a dare. On their first date, Loki follows invisible and slips a tasteless, colorless potion into his food. One that causes uncontrollable flatulence.

Soon, he's back at the palace replacing his clone in the courtyard. "Eh he he he. Too bad butt plugs don't fit into wallets, brother."

[sarcasticcynic]

A mother’s loss made her an anti-vaccination star. But vaccines didn’t kill her baby.

Anti-vaccine advocates find women whose babies have died unexpectedly and convince them vaccines are to blame.

Tragedy

Evee Clobes died on March 1, 2019, at the age of only six months. She’d been co-sleeping with her mother, Catelin “Catie” Clobes, who called 911 when she awoke the next morning and sobbed, “This can’t be real... This is because she was sleeping with me.” Examination showed that “Areas of her nose, chest, arms and legs were discolored and pooled with blood, indicating Evee had been face-down for some time.” The official autopsy determined that Evee had suffocated (“positional asphyxia”).

Catie took to social media to express her grief. She was immediately bombarded with sympathetic anti-vaxxers with no medical training, who assured Catie that it wasn’t really her fault, and that Evee had really died because of the vaccinations she’d received a couple of days earlier, not because she’d suffocated while co-sleeping with Catie. Understandably, this was a message Catie was very willing to hear.

“Within a week of her daughter’s death, Clobes had joined Stop Mandatory Vaccination’s 169,000-member closed Facebook group, filed a report with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, the federal government’s vaccine safety surveillance program, and retained a lawyer.”

Conspiracies?

Catie has now become a noted anti-vaccine crusader. She rejects the autopsy results: “I safely co-slept with my daughter, that has nothing to do with her death.” Instead, she alleges a massive conspiracy and cover-up:

“Certain people don’t like their work being legally brought into question and the truth being revealed! ... A huge battle has presented itself with yet another entity regarding this case (pretty obvious who). Details can’t be revealed yet but will be very soon. It’s a constant fight right now, something new everyday. I don’t intend to let anyone who may tamper, contaminate, misdocument, or purposely sabotage our search for justice because of their beliefs or ego, get away with it. The cover-up and corruption is so real and it has to be exposed and end. Please consider helping out by donating to my legal fight!”

Catie insists she’s not doing any of this for political purposes: “I’m not out on this big ‘anti-vaxx’ wagon, to deceive people. I’m just telling my truth.”

Proof?

On the advice of her lawyer, Catie hired Dr. Douglas Miller, a clinical neuropathologist, to perform a private autopsy for her daughter’s case. In July, Miller told Catie that “his investigation found no evidence that vaccines had contributed to Evee’s death,” and declined to testify on her behalf. Catie rejected Miller’s findings, and instead told the Internet that his report contained “proof” that vaccines caused Evee’s death. Miller’s response: “I did not tell Ms. Clobes of any such finding, and I did not provide her or her attorney with any report which alleged any such finding.”

Tragedy #2

In August, Catie posted a GoFundMe campaign to Facebook, asking for donations to help another grieving mother with “bills and expenses” after the death of her two-month-old baby. Sophia Cooney died back in February, when her father Mark came home to find Sophia’s mother, Laura Stanard, asleep on the couch with her. Sophia was “in a supine position,” with her head “pushed into an area between two cushions” on the couch. Laura “pulled Sophia from in between her and the cushion but the baby was purple and limp.”

At the time, police “asked Laura what she thought happened and Laura said she believed Sophia suffocated against the back of the couch. Laura said this was her fault because she fell asleep with her. Laura began to cry.” Sophia’s death was ruled an accident, caused by “asphyxiation due to being in a compromised position while co-sleeping ... The mother breastfed her on a sofa, and unfortunately fell asleep with her still in her arms.”

Laura connected with Catie Clobes online, and Catie began promoting Sophia’s death as vaccine-related instead. Much like Catie, Laura was understandably open to the narrative that it wasn’t an accident and she wasn’t to blame: “I finally found someone who actually believed me.” She, too, is now convinced that vaccines really killed her baby. (The GoFundMe campaign was ultimately taken down when “[Mark] Cooney, friends and family loaded the campaign’s comment section with complaints.”)

Politicizing

Catie has also become active in the legislative arena. When the California Legislature passed a bill closing medical exemption loopholes in the state’s vaccine law, Catie tweeted urging the governor to veto it, claiming “a huge cover-up” and repeating her (apparently untrue) claim that her neuropathologist had evidence that Evee died because of vaccines. When the bill’s sponsor asked about proof, the anti-vax community promptly “accused him of attacking a grieving mother.”

This, more than anything else, demonstrates the hypocrisy of the anti-vaccine movement. They don’t hesitate to seek out grieving mothers at their most vulnerable, and recruit them to support their cause. But let anyone else dare to question the narrative thereafter, and anti-vaxxers start screaming about supposed attacks on those very same grieving mothers.

Catie Clobes, Laura Stanard, and others like them deserve the utmost sympathy for their unimaginably painful losses. The anti-vaccine movement that shamelessly takes advantage of their grief, however, is utterly despicable and deserves nothing but scorn and condemnation.

[kix]

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