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Truth:
You missed the point completely. Firstly, the population involved is affected in much bigger statistics. Your approach would minimize the terror attack of 9/11, that only 3000 people died, which could have happened worldwide in a single day. That’s quite foolish. We are observing a community that has an anomalous spread of a contagious disease, with potentially serious consequences. Additionally, there is a myth that not vaccinating is a “religious exemption”. This is not accurate or true. One may choose to not vaccinate because of one’s beliefs about the benefit risk ratio, or the conspiracy theories about the CDC and big pharm lying, etc. But the lie that there is a religious exemption is intolerable. In fact, and poskim are unanimous about the chiyuv to inoculate kids. Perhaps force cannot be used. But to allow this obsession to put others at risk is completely unacceptable, and the poskim spelled that out. So what does religion say about this?