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I don't let my children do either. Imagine trading a low risk in the distant future for a low risk in the present for a healthy child? Any business person kno

• ceejayoz 3y ago
  > Any business person knows things that potentially happen in the distant future are to be heavily discounted, while present day risks carry full values. Any parent knows that a business folding and a child dying aren't quite the same thing.
  • fwungy 3y ago
    Your child isn't going to die from cervical cancer. Kids don't get it. Your child may die or be seriously injured by HPV vaccines. There are about 80 open class action lawsuits in process over it. We took most of the other vaccines, but my partner and I decided the HPV vaccine was too dangerous right now, while we have happy healthy kids, to worry about the small chance that an unproven cervical cancer vaccine will work thirty years from now.
    • ceejayoz 3y ago
      > Your child isn't going to die from cervical cancer. Kids don't get it. This is remarkably ignorant. The vaccine prevents HPV infection. Kids absolutely do get that. HPV infection can lead to cervical cancer, and we're on an article about how it's thus most effective if administered before the age of 14.