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Q&A: Vaccinated People and Antigen Tests

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Vaccinated People and Antigen Tests

Question

Hello and blessings, Rabbi Michi,
Here are the new coronavirus guidelines from the Ministry of Health:
https://facebook.com/148373088607944/posts/4473208179457725/
 
I would like to ask: according to the above guidelines, a vaccinated person who was exposed to a confirmed carrier is required to take an antigen test. For vaccinated people, generally speaking, there is no point in taking these tests since they are protected. There is no practical way to enforce these voluntary tests, and of course the option to get vaccinated is open to the entire public. In the Rabbi’s opinion, is it possible to forgo the antigen tests despite the guidelines?
Thank you in advance,
Binyamin Gorlin

Answer

No. Beyond basic fairness toward your surroundings (who could get infected from you), there is also the law of the land.

Discussion on Answer

Amir (2022-01-05)

Rabbi, according to the green-pass guidelines, a store larger than 100 square meters is required to admit only people with a green pass, while a store under 80 square meters can admit everyone, vaccinated and unvaccinated alike. It’s ridiculous — as if the virus sees a sign at the entrance to a 105-square-meter store and says, “Alright, fine, I won’t go in,” but when it sees a 78-square-meter store it says, “Charge ahead!” As if it has some special radar. It’s ridiculous, an insult to the intelligence, an insult to us as citizens. I do not see myself as obligated in any way to behave according to and respect such foolishness, which lacks any medical or epidemiological justification and is promoting forced vaccination. In addition, today a very significant number of vaccinated people are the ones getting infected with coronavirus, creating the illusion that the green pass protects, while reality shows that it does not. Good luck with taking the fourth vaccine, Rabbi.

Michi (2022-01-05)

Truly magnificent logic. Did you come up with these arguments all by yourself?

I also don’t see myself as obligated to a stupid system that determines that eating an olive’s bulk of pork incurs lashes, but a little less does not. A system that disqualifies a sukkah of 20.01 cubits and validates a sukkah of 20. Ten people make a quorum, but 9 do not. And so on.
Not all the decisions that were made are necessarily correct, but armchair geniuses and self-appointed expert epidemiologists like you and the rest of the anti-vaccine “lovers of liberty” are a significant part of the reason for what is happening here. So is it any wonder that people mock your/our intelligence?
Good luck with the first vaccine.

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