[The problem I have with Rick Perry’s decision is that he even contemplated doing such a thing in the first place. He didn’t think it through, or if he did and went ahead anyway, that’s even worse.]
I’ve written this numerous times, perhaps even to you. The vaccine was already being provided at no cost to low income people in Texas. Insurance companies would not cover the vaccine for regular tax payers UNLESS it was on the states list of “mandated” vaccinations.
If you read my comments about young people freely engaging in oral sex and that it can be spread in that manner, I would say that the Governor was fully aware of that fact too and thought he was doing a good thing. He certainly wasn’t trying to harm anyone.
One child’s death is a horrible thing, but I am shocked that all this furor is over one death when other vaccines have probably caused many more.
[HPV isn’t a communicable disease]
Well, it is when More than 40 types of HPV can be passed through sexual contact. ... in the mouth or throat of a person who had oral sex with an infected person. .... There is NO CURE for the virus HPV.
http://www.womenshealth.gov/faq/human-papillomavirus.cfm#e
According to new Canadian research, more than 75 percent of sexually active young women have previously engaged in oral sex,
I’ve been speaking about Perry in a more global sense rather than local. I find it interesting that they have a sex vaccine ready, just at the time they’re introducing an advanced sexual education program, directed at 6th grade and up. (UN advocate Mayor Bloomberg has apparently just okay’ed an extremely lurid and perverted sexual program for the classrooms.) Are we undergoing a Global Standardization in education and everything else for that matter? George Schultz signed a treaty with the Russians which leaves us vulnerable to such UN programs. Bottomline: Basically I’m concerned about Perry’s judgment, and perhaps a possible friendliness with trillionaires who already own Obama and a number of our other government officials.
Potlatch, I’m afraid your link doesn’t lead to an actual study which isn’t the bone of contention anyway. As for communicable disease - it’s not infectious from a classroom cross-infection safety aspect. As I’ve said these aren’t my bone(s) of contention in regards to Perry.