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Nope! The narrative of individual responsibility has been pushed for a long time because it was all we had, but it's always been the case that even doing every
by roguecoder 4y ago
Nope!
The narrative of individual responsibility has been pushed for a long time because it was all we had, but it's always been the case that even doing everything perfectly correct doesn't reduce the risk to zero. We discovered in the past decade that infants have a neurological difference where, when deprived of oxygen, instead of trying to get more air they simply stop breathing: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2015.00220/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2015.0022...
It's not "ordinary suffocation". Instead, anything that reduces how much oxygen an infant is getting, including colds, mild allergic reactions, rolling over onto their face, acid reflux, not enough ventilation, etc, will potentially trigger a complete shut-down of their breathing & eventually death.
- jjeaff 4y agoThat would explain why mitigation measures seem to help. Even though they may not be the true cause.
- colechristensen 4y agoYou have to be cautious here, babies need to be protected from many things that don’t necessarily need to be classified as diseases. Babies are just vulnerable. There is a point where a vulnerability gets classified as a disease, which is sort of the core of the issue.