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Do you 'enjoy' spending time with your kids?
- Yes, most of the time we really have fun together
- Sometimes it's fun, sometimes it's really dull and aggravating
- Honestly most of the time it's not fun at all, but it's not supposed to be fun
- I really don't enjoy it at all, and wish I could spend less time with them
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Is it common for Jewish people to not vaccinate for religious reasons?
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well the majority of children/adults who have come down with the mumps are orthodox i think that's why the op asked.
[ Reply | More ]is there a difference between orthodox and hasidic? i assume one is a subset of the other
[ Reply | More ]hasidism is a particularly religious sect of orthodoxy...most orthodox are not hasidic
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that's not entirely accurate. there's a herd immunity threshold for every disease, but vaccines are not 100% efficicacious.
[ Reply | More ]That's right, they arenot 100% effective in any given individual. That's why and individual's immunity depends on herd immunity. A vaccine may not be 100% effective in one person, but if everyone gets the vaccine, then there IS 100% immunity. That's how smallpox was eradicated worldwide -- everyone in the world, for two generations, was immunized until there were no more cases of smallpox to catch. Now, nobody has to be immunized because smallpox doesn't exist in the community. signed, public health professional
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I'm not Jewish. But I thought in order to get into a daycare, or school setting a child has to be up to date on all vaccinations. I'm a government employee and I had to bring my shot records in by a certain date or face termination. I live in Washington D.C. Is this not common practice in other areas?
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