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I mean things like HPV vaccination. I'm not going to get my son vaccinated. This is an example of Merck and the other drug manufacturers manufacturing a vaccin
by pfarnsworth 10y ago
I mean things like HPV vaccination. I'm not going to get my son vaccinated. This is an example of Merck and the other drug manufacturers manufacturing a vaccine to treat a low-risk disease. Pushing it on boys, as well, is simply expanding the market to get more money. When my daughter is old enough, she can get the vaccine, once we have figured out if there are long-term effects from this vaccine of if it's just scare mongering.
Yes, HPV causes cervical cancer in some cases. But they want to innoculating every single child for a disease that kills 3000 women a year in the US. That is less 10% of the number of people killed in driving accidents per year. That sounds like a money grab by the drug manufacturers by making up a boogyman in HPV, and collecting the money from our government and us through our taxes. It's genius, in some senses.
It's the equivalent of banning all peanut products from every school in the US to protect those few that are deathly allergic, and then paying a company for the enforcement of the ban.
- ceejayoz 10y agoYou're saying if you could get rid of 10% of auto accident deaths with a one-off injection in childhood you wouldn't?!
- pfarnsworth 10y agoYou should educate yourself better. There are 3 doses, and at the monetary cost and health risks of vaccinating every single child in the US? I would definitely not. The vaccination is not risk free, there have been health issues and deaths associated with it. It's not a freebie.
- enraged_camel 10y agoWhat health issues and deaths?
- minikites 10y agoYeah, I'm going to go ahead and group you with every other dangerous anti-vaxxer: http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/04/opinion/carroll-douglas-hpv-vaccine/index.html?iref=allsearch http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/04/opinion/carroll-douglas-hpv-va... > Such cancer still causes the death of 4,000 women each year in the United States. It's estimated that about 15,000 HPV-associated cancers could be prevented each year by the vaccine. HPV is, unfortunately, often transmitted through sexual activity. It's the cause of genital warts, and it's an extremely common sexually transmitted infection. > The vaccine is safe. By the summer of 2012, more than 46 million doses of the vaccine had been given in the United States -- almost all to girls because of early awareness of HPV's link to cervical cancer -- and adverse events from vaccines are closely monitored. > Moreover, there is growing evidence that the recent increase in cancers of the head and neck are also associated with HPV infection. A recent study of more than 1,300 patients with oral cancer found that more than 55% of them were infected with HPV.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoAnd I'm going to group you in with the militant sheep that follow orders without questioning them. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH!
- minikites 10y agoIronic coming from someone who follows the anti-vax herd despite a raft of evidence to the contrary.
- pfarnsworth 10y agolol I just said my kids and I are fully vaccinated. Militant sheep is a good name for you. Anyone who dares to say anything about a single vaccination is a part of the anti-vax herd. You should be proud of yourself, Merck would love you.
- ceejayoz 10y ago> I just said my kids and I are fully vaccinated. You explicitly stated that this isn't going to be the case: > I'm not going to get my son vaccinated.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoHPV isn't until the kids are 11 or 12. For all of the vaccinations that are currently required for their ages, they are fully vaccinated. I don't see how I can be considered "part of the anti-vaxx herd" if my kids and I are fully vaccinated as to what is appropriate for their age groups. As I mentioned, I disagree with the HPV vaccination, but that is 1 out of dozens. To call me an anti-vaxxer is laughable.