Sounds like the judge is just as Nescient or Ignorant (these are actually different words, the second involving willfulness) as the rest of the general populace, and subject to the general propaganda.
Several studies were carried out in the early 1900's with regards to the flu. Sick people's fluids were given orally to the healthy, and even injected into them. The sick were told to cough on the healthy and shared the same breathing space, along with several other body-to-body-close proximity between sick and healthy and not one of the many healthy got sick.
One would think this would be the end of the matter, but no. The lie of germ theory just keeps getting repeated over and over, as well as the lie about vaccinations in general, and the entertainment propaganda (see above) that makes individual choice and freedom seem selfish. Wash, rinse, repeat.