Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef on Sunday called on the ultra-Orthodox public to receive the coronavirus vaccine, while Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau was vaccinated at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Despite government efforts to reduce the growing infection rates in Haredi neighborhoods and localities, an alarming increase in infections among the ultra-Orthodox population was recently noted.
“We were told and we were blessed by the grace of God to be blessed and a vaccine was found that prevents the coronavirus infection,” wrote Rabbi Yosef in an Ultra-Orthodox publication on Sunday.
“All the necessary experiments were made and experts say that the vaccine is indeed helpful in stopping the pandemic while posing no danger.”
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They are the government employees; and as such will push the official government view 99% of the time. They are not trained in science, and have no idea how this particular vaccine is a completely different from the traditional time-tested vaccines; this covid vaccine is suspected by many scientists of major side effects, such as possible infertility and autoimmune diseases – all for a virus that has an infection fatality rate below that of the common flu. If you didn’t study a sugya and all case details, you can’t pasken – clear and simple.
And yet, not one person responded to yesterday’s poster who asked a very sensible question:
You take the polio vaccine not to get polio, the measles vaccine not to contract measles, but what is purpose of the Covid vaccine? Will those vaccinated not get Covid anymore, which means not become sick ever again and live forever because, after all, Covid is all the sickness and illness under the sun and the cause for all the deaths? Or is this an apikorsic question and you just have to follow the Health Dept’s instructions naively and inject yourself without rhyme or reason, without purpose whatsoever?
And if so, why do you still have to wear a mask after the injection?
To answer the question of Anonymous, manufacturers do not know yet if the vaccine will prevent transmission, virus shedding, or asymptomatic infection (having the infection without showing any outward symptoms). They also do not know if the vaccine will be effective for more than two months. They only know it is supposed to lesson symptoms.
More info here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uMv1jgV_6DUxPhqlPKgb6osm2yxlFmFQ/view