It's very hard to force people to do something they don't want to do, but you're right: here it's a culture of forbidding the vaccination and one person, or body, is speaking for how many? Hundreds? Thousands? Maybe some of them want to get the vaccines but aren't allowed. I don't know: where does it say in the Bible "Thou shalt not vaccinate"? Isn't this like those other cultures and sects who refuse to allow surgery, even if it's a life-threatening disease that surgery would cure?
The idea of one person making a decision that not only affects all those who follow them, but others outside the circle too, is worrying and without question, the more people who refuse, or are not allowed, to get vaccinated the bigger the chance of the disease growing, strengthening, even mutating.
But religious freedoms are so cherished and protected in America, how do you enforce this, if you do? What's the thinking behind it anyway? God will save you so science need not bother? Have they ever thought that maybe God, if he exists, could be working through science? That the one is not necessarily the enemy of the other?
Sorry, I have no answers, just comments...
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