Yeah, it’s not smart for lay people to make dogmatic pronouncements about health policy initiatives. Often, when you read up on the epidemiology and prevalence of certain diseases, you see why the health recommendations may make sense after all. Not saying I agree with the Perry Gardasil deal, but actual serious adverse reactions are probably exceedingly rare.
Texas is deep bible belt territory and I am fine with fundamentalists. I love them, but it is my opinion that many fundamentalist Christians some how feel that giving a vaccine for an STD to their precious chaste daughters some how sullys them.
And that’s fine, but people are so wierded out about this stuff that they would deny a state approved program to vaccinate others?
Frankly I find the entire matter very bizarre.
I would imagine that ANY medicine has a negative side even a deadly one. There is no certainty with any of them and some people might die from taking them. But we have to be more concerned with the 99.999% which they help.