Posted on 05/14/2007 9:15:48 AM PDT by bedolido
“Wiping out debilitating, expensive diseases is a Good Thing.”
Regardless of the benefit-cost ratio? One problem with mandating this vaccine is that cervical cancer is rare, and early detection of cell abnormalities through annual pap smear exams has dramatically reduced its incidence and morbidity. At $360 per vaccination, the marginal benefit-cost ratio is likely to be extremely low.
It's high cost makes it's widespread use questionable. So, they went to a full court press publicity campaign aided by gullible lefties to try to get the states to pay for it and mandate it, which would be a huge profit at the public expense. People are catching on, but not the maroon who wrote this article.
It depends on the cost of the vaccination, potential side effects, and the disease against which you are vaccinating. For example, it doesn’t make sense to mandate that everyone in the U.S. receive an anti-malarial vaccine or even a hep-B vaccine. On the other hand, if I were a clinical health professional, I would want (and, in most settings, would be required to) get a hep-B vaccination.
The cost to taxpayers will be billions nationwide. And the vaccine covers only 4 out of almost 30 strains of the virus. My concern is that this drug has not been tested long-term and I don't want our children to be used as guinea pigs for the drug companies.
>>It depends on the cost of the vaccination, potential side effects, and the disease against which you are vaccinating. For example, it doesn’t make sense to mandate that everyone in the U.S. receive an anti-malarial vaccine or even a hep-B vaccine. On the other hand, if I were a clinical health professional, I would want (and, in most settings, would be required to) get a hep-B vaccination.<<
Those are all good points. What the incidence in women of the virus that causes cervical cancer? I think its pretty high.
why do we need to mandate a vacine for a secual behavior disease? Could it be the lobbyists for the drug maker are pushing this to deal with the fact the pap test is not profitable enough?
The same argument could be used for compulsory birth control for all 11+-year-old girls.
Yes, I don't trust this vaccine yet. I also resent the fact that the company tried aggressively to mandate it. It should be a choice, not a mandate.
One problem with the HPV vaccine is that HPV is ubiquitous in the adult population, but only a few strains are associated with a small number of cancers each year. Cervical cancer is much rarer now than 30 years ago because of the success of early detection of cell abnormalities through annual pelvic exams.
I didn’t say there should be compulsory vaccines. I was only addressing the idea that this is just a license for immorality. It isn’t.
It’s an attempt to prevent a certain type of cancer. I’m all for it, if the tests show benefit.
I absolutely don’t agree with requiring anybody to get this vaccine, but it’s just idiocy to argue against it on the basis it will cause rampant promiscuity.
Where is Nancy Pelosi on camera showing her daughter getting the vaccine? Where is the picture of pelosi getting the vaccine to show it is safe?
Why are these public officials so insistant that we experiment for them for a voluntary disease?
A Pap test can detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells on the cervix. Regular Pap testing and careful medical follow-up, with treatment if necessary, can help ensure that pre-cancerous changes in the cervix caused by HPV infection do not develop into life threatening cervical cancer. The Pap test used in U.S. cervical cancer screening programs is responsible for greatly reducing deaths from cervical cancer. For 2004, the American Cancer Society estimates that about 10,520 women will develop invasive cervical cancer and about 3,900 women will die from this disease. Most women who develop invasive cervical cancer have not had regular cervical cancer screening.
Circumcision 'reduces HIV risk'
Next?
I find that total rot! Do you have any, valid scientific references for that statement.
Thats utter crap. More young girls will feel "safer" to engage in promiscuous sexual behavior with this shot. If you say no, you've absolutely, completely ignorant of human nature.
I know, I know, he told you you were the only one and he never hit on any of those overseas pleasure girls...
The government has NO RIGHT to mandate a vaccine for a disease that can’t be passed by sitting next to someone in class.
Well then, I guess in your reality we need to hire some Morals Police (like the ones Iran and Saudi Arabia use so effectively) to make sure those little sluts don't flaunt their vaccinated status in front of poor, defenseless men who will otherwise have no choice but to take advantage of them.
Right. And of course, they will educate parents about their right NOT to vaccinate. I am sure they will do just as well as the school district in California that informed me that I had no choice but to vaccinate my child. Of course, that was a TOTAL lie, since California has not only medical and religious exemptions, but philosophical as well.
Since I was already an informed parent, I ripped them up over this issue.
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