I created an account just so that I could post this comment.
Doomsday – yasher koach, thank you for persevering against all the baseless hate over here. Why anyone would think you have an alternate agenda is beyond me. I too try to support my family’s health without the use of pharmaceuticals, where possible, and no, it doesn’t mean shelling out money to alternative health practitioners, mostly good nutrition, exercise, and the confidence to look things up and not rely on the doctors for everything.
This idea some pro-vaxxers have that all people who don’t vaccinate are crazies and uneducated is just mind-boggling. Obviously, I can’t speak for everyone, but I can say that all of my friends who don’t vaccinate are intelligent people who spent many many hours researching the subject before coming to their conclusions – not just mindlessly following the “cult” as people here are apt to say.
And, to set the record straight once and for all, I PERSONALLY spoke with a gadol, one of the elder tzaddikim in america, and he told me (yes, this is a direct quote), “Stay away from vaccines. (me: All of them?) Yes, all of them”. And no, this was not a personal psak based on my situation. This was what he told me before we even discussed my family’s health. A general rule. And no, this was not 10 years ago before there was an outbreak. This was less than two weeks ago.
I’m sorry I am not publishing his name, but I did not ask his permission to do that. If you want to ask me directly, perhaps the mods can put you in touch with me so that you can ask the shaila for youself.
So, before you go off again and say that people who don’t vaccinate have no gadol backing them up, stop and make sure you have the facts straight. We did the research. We asked the questions. We got the psak. There is nothing more to say.