Reply To: New York State is Denying Access to Education to Anti-Vaxer Students

As far as it not being a religious issue,. if the Vilna Goan & the Bal Shem Tov both testified that a piece of meat was kosher and Zev said that that piece was HAM. The Talmud states that for everyone the meat is kosher but for Zev the meat is HAM. So even though for everyone else it is permissible to vaccinate but for those who hold it’s prohibited it is the same as making them eat pork.

A bigger problem is if you let them be home schooled and not given them a good education, then those parents who don’t want their children to learn secular studies will become ant-vaxers too in order not to have their children taught secular studies thus creating a bigger problem. Another problem is that if they don’t get a good education they are going to be a burden on society. Just remember this is the state that wants yeshivas to teach more secular studies so that the students can be more productive during their lifetime.

If 96 percent of Jews vaccinate and the vaccine makes one immune, if an anti-vaxer attended school with the average class having 30 students he couldn’t contaminate anyone with the disease, as he is the only one not vaccinated. Even in the lunchroom or the school yard the only one that would get the disease would be other anti-vaxers so I don’t see the problem. Even if someone does get the disease, it is usually mild and goes away in a week or two. Although some people do require hospitalization. AIDS on the other hand is a death sentence. If bodily fluids from an AIDS patient gets in contact with broken skin such as a scab or cut or if someone chews on their finger nails after touching handrail where an AIDS patient deposited bodily fluids there is a good chance of contacting AIDS. Once you get Aids there is no cure so you eventually die from it. Yet AIDS patients are not denied access to schools . If you had a choice between having an anti-vaxer or an AIDS patient in your child’s class which would you choose?