Reply #166: cut off your nose to spite your face ...

[iverglas]

No, make that cut out your daughter's cervix to spite Merck's face. I'm sure this will pain Merck greatly.

I've seldom seen such bizarre ideology-driven twaddle as I've seen in the threads here on this issue. I'm not going to read this one; enough.

For now, I would prefer Gardasil be given to at-risk women

If you're at risk, it's pretty much too fucking late. I don't believe this.

All girls and women are at risk. All. All girls and women.

HPV is not an epidemic; it cannot be 'caught' easily

No, it can only be caught by having sex with someone who is infected. Given the rate of infection in the population and the overwhelming likelihood that your daughter will have sex with someone sometime, well, cross your fingers tight, 'cause that sounds pretty "easily" to me.

Just one thought you might want to think. Girls and women are all vulnerable to sexual assault. Nice married women who were, and whose husbands were, virgins when they took the vows. Nuns. Nine-year-old girls. Your daughter. I'm sure you take precautions so that this doesn't happen to her. But I hope you're crossing your fingers tight too, because your daughter is no more immune to sexual assault that she will be to HPV if you follow this bizarre reasoning.



You know, only in the bloody USofA would someone even think of saying "being targeted for vaccination" in reference to a program to make protection against a horrific disease available at no cost to everyone in the population that is at risk of contracting it ...