Those are the facts. It isn't contradictory to say that many people can have something, but only a few suffer serious consequences from having it.
Estimates are that at any given moment, between 10% and 50% of the population is carrying the virus. Infection lasts years, from what I gather (unlike influenza and cold, which most people "cure" in days or weeks). Those who promote the vaccine also note that about 80% of the population will carry HPV at some point in their lives.
The rate of cervical cancer is not 10-50% per year, nor does cervical caner appear in 80% of women at some point during their lives.
For most people, carrying HPV is inconsequential.
That’s right, it’s inconsequential because HPV almost never turns into cancer.
But it’s not right that 80% have it “sometime in their lives”. HPV is a virus, oh I guess you could say sort of like Herpes, it’s forever. Once you contract it, it is always in your system. You don’t “catch it” and recover from it.