I have a cousin who is a neonatologist. He had a premie in an isolette that seemed to be doing okay and then came down with clear sigs of a viral infection. The child died. An autopsy revealed that the child died of herpes. Neither parent tested positive for it. The only other non-medical staff visiting the child was the maternal grandmother. She tested positive for herpes, a diagnosis she rejected as “impossible”.
She finally admitted that she reached into the isolette and gave the child a hug and a kiss. She rejected as absurd that she was responsible for the child’s death. She was a strongly delusional woman with the IQ of a beagle.
She was a strongly delusional woman with the IQ of a beagle
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Don’t insult beagles.
Yes, normalcy bias can do that to a person.