Just do it. My Mother is a Scientologist and they are very anti-vax. World most concentrated dose of conspiracy theorists and it nearly cost me my life when I was 8.

I got measles. Now in the world of Scientology this meant that I was now a potential trouble source. If you get ill in Scn it means your PTS. Or connected to someone who might be holding up your spiritual progress through not being enarmored enough with your spiritual gain in Scn.

Every time your sick it is apparently because someone you know is not into Scn enough!

So there I was 8 with the measles with a Mother telling me I need to get my friends into line with regards to Scn. Her religious pursuit of choice (against her own mothers wishes) not mine.

The fever lasted 2 days. The aches for a week. The rash was just a cosmetic inconvience afterwards. Surfering a temp like I had nothing mattered other than surviving to the next minute.

I got delirius. I remember hallucinating – I wont recount what I saw. That for me is what I took from it. I never told anyone what I seen to survive the trauma.

There was no suggestion of getting a doctor involved.

In fact I remember my Mother saying ‘Can we handle this Dev-T from your body so I can go back to the Org’. Dev-T means developed traffic in Scientologese, or unneeded tasks. So taking care of her 8 year old sick son was an unwanted to be done task and she had to be back into the local Scientology ‘church’ to continue ‘clearing the planet’.

I got my vaccines at 20. It’d have been easier for both Mother and Son if it’d have been when I was an infant. As I made sure my own wain was. Against the wishes or her mother (catholic) and my mother (scientologist).

There is more than enough room in the world for medicine and faith – they’re not mutually exclusive.