Halakha permits, encourages, and likely even obligates Rachel to get a COVID-19 vaccination for herself and her children in order to protect herself and others from infection, help create herd immunity, and end the pandemic. Similarly, schools and communities should require a COVID-19 vaccination despite parents’ reluctance. We believe that failure to vaccinate violates the prohibition to stand idly by another’s blood.
We hope that a safe and effective vaccine will be developed and disseminated in the very near future. It is our best hope to alleviate the worldwide suffering and to arrest the horrific death toll brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. When it does arrive, we feel that it is morally obligatory and halakhically mandated that people accept the vaccine.
The article and its approach are incredibly upsetting. With a clear agenda
to justify mandated covid vaccination.
The authors attempt to bring proof from previous poskim on the smallpox
vaccine.
I waited in vain for the authors to point out that clearly covid and
smallpox are NOT comparable, because of their vastly different morbidity
rates.
The smallpox vaccine was mandated because of the small risk to vaccination,
vs the large risk to not vaccinating.
Covid is a risk for some (especially with preexisting issues), but not in
general for the average person.
(it is true that a tiny minority of younger/healthy people have strong (and
even fatal) reactions, but the number of these people is v small)
Do the authors propose mandated flu vaccination?!
I assume not, because they understand there is a difference between flu and
smallpox.
And so to wrt covid for the average person.
(covid vaccination may be advised for the elderly and those more at risk)
It is against halacha to demand/propose a mandated administration of a
vaccination with unproven long term effects (and with government bias to
claim safety) for a population that does not need it.
It is against halacha to demand/propose a mandated administration of a
vaccination with unproven long term effects (and with government bias to
claim safety) for a population that does not need it.
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For whom is against halacha? Local secular authorities? American authorities? Exactly which Halacka is it against?
Who makes the determination concerning whether a population needs it or not? Isn’t it always the case that long-term effects are unproven until people use it and the long-term passes
Kt
Joel rich
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