That is pure FUD.
No one was fired for either incident.
jerf is accurate that the current system stacks pressure against parents and not in a nice way.
I'm already aware it's a low-probability event. The problem is, low probability times catastrophic outcome still leaves something that I worry about enough to affect my life. It needs to be a lot lower.
Aside from the fact that it’s never happened, and the whole scare is based around one family and regional government? Maybe I would help if people stopped raising the FUD level by claiming it’s a rational fear? After all, people are scared of many things that don’t exist, and the response isn’t usually to fan the flames of those fears with bullshit.
To be clear, the precise probability of this is demonstrably 0, it’s like saying you won’t let your kids out because you’re afraid aliens will abduct them. Rational people don’t then point to that fear as a societal ill, and certainly don’t spread the fear of it around online.