just to clarify a few things-
1- people who are concerned about the unvaccinated children spreading whatever virus to their vaccinated children as much as it spreading to their children that are too young for the vaccination or have weakened immune systems that are unable to become immune from the vaccination
2- yes there are people that can not be vaccinated because of real life threatening situations like egg allergies, and yes they should rely on herd immunity to keep them safe, but once everyone starts having their own reasons why it won’t work, the method fails!
3- I’m sorry about your child’s peanut allergy, tzaddiq, but in the scheme of things, I think you prefer that your child be allergic to peanuts than blind ChV. (he may yet grow out of the allergy like my brother did)
4- the autisim link has been disproven! in fact the greater number of diagnoses are just because we are better about testing and diagnosing than we used to be. I actually recently heard of a family where they stopped vaccinating the kids because they were worried about the autism link, and then the next kid born, never vaccinated for anything, was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. the mother then got them all vaccinated
5- about the HPV vaccine. I was still within that teenage realm when it came out, and my doctor told me: I’m required to tell you about this vaccine, don’t worry, I don’t expect you to get it, I know that you don’t need it yet.
It is not so widespread for every girl to take it, and doctors who do their jobs properly and tell their patients what its for let the frum girls pass on it.