You don't vaccinate everybody to save 1 kid. I am sorry.
Offit is shameless. He likens religious convictions to public health policy. Is there any evidence for this?
And I think that's the tension. I mean, public health is about caring about your neighbor, which I would argue is also what religion is about.
"We're all in this together" is not a religious ethic, Paul. Don't start pretending that you're a religious researcher, now, please. Dr. Paul, religion involves the holy spirit which in turn weighs personal choice. Religion looks at the individual. Public health looks at the population as a whole and completely ignores the individual.
Which [is why] I think it's deeply disingenuous to say that, for religious reasons, you're going to put your child and those with whom your child comes into contact in harm's way. How is that a religious principle for any religion?
You're disingenuous, Paul. You like to transpose concepts instead of making important distinctions, which makes Dr. Paul, Mr. Adivisor to the FDA, a fraud.
When children were separated from their parents at the southern border, who was there first? It was Christian relief societies that were there.
Do you see how Dr. Paul conflates topics? Immigration policy with vaccination policy, Paul? Sorry, fraud.
I mean, Constantine, who was the first Christian emperor of Rome, at a time when child abuse was the crying vice of the great Roman Empire, established, essentially, organizations to help children. So I don't get it. I don't get it.
There's that old canard, "It's for the children." How many atrocities have been committed in the name of children?
It seems to me like such the ultimate contradiction in terms to say that you have religious exemption to vaccination.
