12 Questions About Thalia Vida Gardner's Death

Several days ago, I wrote a blog post related to a story that had been circulating about baby Thalia Vida Gardner, a beautiful black-eyed baby girl who, according to people sharing the story, died after a reaction to twenty vaccines given at once. The blog reveals that Thalia Vida’s father had a long history of drug abuse and violence and that she was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome and opiate overdose at the time of her death… and that there were, in fact, only four vaccines. I also wrote an open letter to Thalia's mother.

Since then, I have been relentlessly attacked. I would be more than happy to listen if some of the supporters of Thalia Vida Gardner’s family could answer a few very simple questions that I have, but, every time I’ve asked them, I’ve been attacked. In the last three days, I was called a shill, a bully, a c*nt, a child abuser, a d*ke, a mother*cker, a sociopath,  a narcissist, and an *sshole. One person said she hoped my children died. Another person said that I am incapable of actually loving my children. Several told me that I am not a real mother because I adopted my kids (even though I gave birth to both of them and I have no idea where they got that idea).

If you’d like to make your case clear for why and how vaccines killed Thalia Vida Gardner, it would serve you well to calmly answer these questions—preferably citing scientifically plausible evidence. Have the answers? Please post them below.

1. If vaccines killed Thalia Vida Gardner, why is her father asking for $10,000 to prove it, since her cause of death was diagnosed in the hospital and will be confirmed by the autopsy? If vaccines were her cause of death, the hospital would have found them to be her cause of death.

2. Thalia Vida Gardner’s mother has posted several places online saying that her family is being accused of shaking her to death. Why would the hospital say she was shaken to death if she was not?

3. Encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, which anti-vaccine activists say killed Thalia, is easy to accurately diagnose. Any child presenting with the symptoms Thalia had would have received an EEG, brain imaging, a spinal tap, and tests of her blood and urine. Why did none of these tests reveal that she had encephalitis, if she had it?

4. After her shots but before her hospitalization, Thalia Vida’s aunt said she was “healthy, happy, and learning to take her first steps,” and her caregiver Felicia Polard-Philips said she was “100%.” Her mother was going about her life as usual; the family moved and she was taking selfies. If she was horribly sick for the entirety of those eight days, why would two people who cared for her say that she was well, and why did the family continue with their day-to-day life?

5. A diagnosis can only be made by a medical expert, usually an MD. In what was are Katie Coyne, the anti-vaccine activist who started spreading Thalia’s story, and Tyler Justin Gardner, Thalia’s father who has never been able to write a coherent sentence, qualified to diagnose Thalia’s alleged vaccine reaction?

6. What imaging, lab tests, and exams did Thalia Vida’s father perform in order to diagnose her with encephalitis? Encephalitis is a rather specific diagnosis and, to arrive at it, the characteristic symptoms have to be present. A positive spinal tap and red-flag blood-work, in addition to neurological symptoms, would have been necessary to arrive at that diagnosis.

7. If Thalia Vida’s father is more qualified to make a medical diagnosis than the medical doctors who treated her, does that mean that he never takes himself or his children to the doctor, and diagnoses himself instead?

8. Thalia Vida’s father posted on our blog stating that her brain was “swelling and bleeding” because of vaccines between her immunization and her hospitalization. Symptoms of these conditions include loss of motor skills (like no longer being able to sit or stand), loss of balance, fainting, vomiting, screaming, lethargy, confusion, high fever, aversion to light, a limp body, and a bulging soft spot. Why did Thalia have no symptoms of either of these conditions in these photos with her aunt, and how was she gaining new motor skills during a time that her motor skills would have rapidly declined?

9. Although he stated in one post that he doesn’t believe that “anyone with any care in them could shake her to death.” (Funny that he includes “to death,” as if shaking her would have been okay as long as she didn’t die.) And yet this man has a documented criminal history that includes battery and domestic violence. Why should we believe that someone who is capable of battering his wife, is not also capable of hurting his child?

10. If there has in fact been a massive conspiracy to hide that Thalia died of vaccine-related encephalitis, how did dozens of people with no connection to one another orchestrate this? Do cover up an actual case of encephalitis, it would require that everyone from the nurse who checked her temperature, to the paramedics who first arrived on the scene, to the secretary at the lab that processed her blood work, all agree to the same lie. This is not possible.

11. Thalia Vida’s father has stated repeatedly that the opiates found in Thalia’s blood stream were caused by an antidote given to her by paramedics who (for apparently no conceivable reason) misdiagnosed her with opiate overdose. Naxolone does not cause a positive opiate test, so this could not have caused her to test positive at the hospital. What caused Thalia Vida to test positive for opiates?

12. To those of you who have tweaked, twisted, altered, and cherry-picked the details of Thalia Vida’s death to promote your stance against vaccines: you are sick people for preying on a grieving mother and a culture of paranoid parents in order to promote your dangerous agenda. How do you look at yourself in the mirror?