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Indeed, fool, your statement has a certain superficial persuasiveness.

But, you're all wet when facts and reason are applied.

It is a fact that vaccines have a limited effectiveness. They do not work on every one who is vaccinated. The effectiveness on a mass population is dependent on a sort of "firewall" generated by the majority whose vaccines are working effectively. Your vaccine for polio, for instance, may be a dud. But with so many around you who are vaccinated, you are protected by their vaccine from being exposed. As soon as enough people are not vaccinated, you will contract polio because your chances of being exposed increase.

You take for granted this "firewall"--the way so many take for granted our military whose sacrifice gives us freedom.

Wander around old country cemeteries. Eventually you will come across a row of little stones where a family of children, maybe five or six, have died within days or months of each other. Imagine having a house of children all die of the same disease within a short time of each other. This was diphtheria.

It will probably take an outbreak of something awful to shake this hysteria and complacency. Generally, I don't manage to convince hysterics. It's a level of emotion that cannot be touched by common sense.

I agree that the HPV vaccine deserves discussion and scrutiny. It is not the devastating illness that diphtheria is…but at least look at the science. Your kid may not be sexually promiscuous, but may end up married to someone who is.

You are myopic in that you are willing to concede ineffectiveness but not willing to volunteer (in that post) potential health impact.

Securing the damn border would do far more to reduce the spread of infectious diseases (many of which had been eradicated in this country, like polio) but there is NO political will to do that.

And the HPV thing was a bogus power grab. MEN and women can BOTH get HPV and BOTH get cancers from HPV but only girls were to be vaccinated. Even if only 'womyn' suffered from the HPV infections, men would remain carriers and potentially put unvaccinated (older or immigrant) women at risk. Making it was "women's issue" was designed to silence male voices. Michael Douglas got cancer from HPV. It happens (throat, testicular, etc.).

"Men's lives matter".