The answer is to make it optional for adults and not force this experimental drug into children because politicians and Merck want to make billions.
I have seen absolutely NO movement to add Gardasil to the mandatory vaccination lists anywhere since the initial push back in 2007. Only one state has added it to the list — Virginia.
Is that really what we are arguing here? The article was a scare-mongering article using inaccurate information improperly interpreted to suggest a danger that does not really exist, in what appears to be an attempt to discourage people from choosing on their own to get the vaccination.
BTW, I oppose mandatory vaccination for HPV, wrote articles about it here in Virginia urging our legislature to remove the requirement, and even opposed Perry’s push to do so in Texas. I just don’t think the vaccine has a bad record relative to other vaccinations.
“The answer is to make it optional for adults and not force this experimental drug into children because politicians and Merck want to make billions”.
I totally agree with you. This particular vaccine is available if an adult who has all the information about potential side effects on hand and decide they want the vaccine, to get the vaccine.
Forcing people to get it is just wrong. It is always easy to look at stats and decide “well, not enough become ill or die from it, so, it is okay”.
It isn’t so easy for people when it is their own family member that becomes ill or dies.
Nobody really knows the long term effects yet.
What is totally idiotic is that we now have tons of people walking over the border spreading many communicable diseases. The government and American citizens don’t seem to worry about that. So why force this?