Oh, certain people, like those of us who are sick of the repeated behavior of our co-religionists from this exact same community? The minute I read this polio outbreak was in Rockland county, my heart sank. Everyone knew what that likely meant.
A frum friend of mine told me today that the rumor is an Israeli kid, vaccinated with the live polio vaccine, had just moved into the community and was the likely carrier, and will likely be blamed, completely unfairly — instead of the fact that Hasids in Monsey have a ghastly problem with under-vaccination and non-vaccination.
Yeah, there’s a very good reason that people bring up this same community every time there’s a preventable disease outbreak.
It seems plenty pointless to finger point a community when a case pops up after 20 years and ignore all the other cases in the country popping up from foreign travelers and other communities.
It seems even more pointless if you don't want to say what you want to do to prevent that specific case. Just complaining to complain? Or singling out a community because you don't like them?
Simply put, what would you like to do?. Let's not side step around your intentions because you can't back them up morally.
Left leaning communities like this one are the most vicious towards Orthodox Jews, Israel, and religion in general.
It's really sad and predictable at this point.
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Explain your diagnosis of my "persecution complex".
Define what it is and how you think I have it, doc.
Dude, your persecution complex is amazing. Best I’ve seen in years.
Literally no one here is talking about geopolitics or religion outside of the context that a specific subset of Hasidic Jews in Monsey (and Boro Park, and Williamsburg) keep getting infected with completely preventable diseases again and again and again. It’s not happening in Lakewood, Shaker Heights, Scarsdale, Boca Raton, Pico Robertson, Encino, the Five Towns, or a hundred other Jewish communities INCLUDING ORTHODOX JEWISH communities! You know why? Because they (we) know enough to vaccinate their (our) kids against fucking measles and polio! We’re not talking about Jews, Judaism, Orthodoxy! We’re mad about a completely predictable result of compulsive non-vaccination!
And what I personally would like to do is force people to vaccinate their children against deadly diseases, unless there is a very clear medical reason to abstain. Not doing so is flat out child abuse. It’s damning little kids to lifelong paralysis to own the libs.
Guess what? Sometimes they are! The issue here isn’t kashrut, niddah, or the eternal shidduch crisis. The issue isn’t really about Orthodoxy at all.
The issue is that this exact group of people don’t vaccinate or else under-vaccinate, in ways that are unlike every other community around them, in ways that continually cause outbreaks of diseases that are completely preventable, in ways that absolutely show up in the national data.
Sorry-not-sorry if that hurts your feelings, bubbeleh.
A frum friend of mine told me today that the rumor is an Israeli kid, vaccinated with the live polio vaccine, had just moved into the community and was the likely carrier, and will likely be blamed, completely unfairly — instead of the fact that Hasids in Monsey have a ghastly problem with under-vaccination and non-vaccination.
Yeah, there’s a very good reason that people bring up this same community every time there’s a preventable disease outbreak.