Simply keeping to yourself… to keep it site friendly.. is the best way to go.

Simply keeping to yourself… to keep it site friendly.. is the best way to go.

That’s one hell of a mischaracterizaton of a vaccination program you’ve got here, buddy. I wonder if there’s any potential litigiousness here. But I’ll bite.

I have two daughters. Despite conventional wisdom and whatever social permissiveness may come, I will be teaching the virtues of abstience to both my girls at as early an appropriate age as possible. My daughters will be armed with knowledge and understanding, and they will decide what to do with their bodies and minds when it becomes their time. That’s after high school as far as I’m concerned.

At no time will this vaccine become mandatory. The same goes for contraception. It’s available but not required. The virus in question isn’t a childhood disease. There are no mandatory vaccines for diseases that don’t take the lives of children. Even the flu vaccine, the current greatest viral scourge of children, isn’t mandatory. I and my family get the flu shot yearly. And then we bother to wash our hands and not sneeze on people, anyway.

The assumption of sex out of wedlock is not the basis for the release of this vaccine. Yet I understand the call and need for a preventive vaccine. I’d rather get a tetanus shot every10 years than run the risk of lockjaw. My decision to work in the soil and around rusty nails isn’t affected by the vaccine.
My girls might unwittingly sratch themselves on an infested thorn. I them to clean and report all wounds. Just the same, they get vaccinated.

There are four and only four of the forty HPV viruses you count that this vaccine targets. Those four viruses in particular have been linked to the highest incidence of cervical cancer. (They think about which particular viruses they want to prevent these days, especially because researchers have the tests available to do it.) They bothered to examine cervical cancers and see which strains of HPV caused them, and they use that knowledge to target certain strains. Not a haphazard plan.

The injection schedule and the cost are irrelevant to their efficacy. The question is are they efficaceous? I believe that’s what they had to prove before releasing the vaccine on the market. Is it a boondoggle? Is it unduly expensive? Maybe. Is it immoral to fight a disease, even a veneral disease? No. And the fight shall continue.

Preventative medicine is generally cheap, and invariably far cheaper than treatment of a developed disease (if there is a treatment). I expect this vaccine will, eventually be improved and cost less to make, sooner rather than later, especially if it does the job extremely well.

And as I mention above, the vaccine is meant to be preventative, certainly not curative (none really are ever curative). It is meant to be administered long before sexual activity in order to vaccinate the female against HPV strains that cause cervical cancer. I wouldn’t expect it to help, and yes, it might even cause problems, if the vaccine were administered to a girl with the live virus already in place. That isn’t unprecedented as vaccines go. You don’t give the flu vaccine to someone with the flu. Doctors won’t do it, mainly because it won’t help, and it might harm.

I wouldn’t give the vaccine to a pregant woman. It does kind of miss the point about getting the protection before the sexual activity.

Your remark about the NVIC indicating that pap smears are detecting more cancers in their early stages is well and good. Prevention, rather than symptomatic treatment is the goal with this vaccine.

I’d also go so far to say that this blog looks like it was cut and paste from somewhere else, like a chain letter, almost. Yes, that’s an accusation. You left a random link to Judicial Watch in your screed.

And by the way, because you are a troll, and just to be a rude bastard about it…

If an Eighteenth century man had been lucky enough to find a willing partner in a milkmaid afflicted with cowpox, he most likely would have been rendered immune to smallpox. Of course it wouldn’t have taken sex to ensure the protective transmission, a handshake might have done, but what the hell! Too bad there wasn’t nearly enough milkmaid action in the 18th…I hear they were great with their hands.

That was fun.

Why does no one ever seek to invent and market libido depressants for people under 18 and others who aren’t prepared for the consequences of sex. It would seem to me an ideal solution to so many of the nation’s moral ills.

Of course it doesn’t hide the sad fact that so many of our parents have failed to teach and supervise their children. Churches have not been too good about it either. I think the Bible predicts the kind of moral decay we are seeing. It’s likely only going to get worse.