Reply #172: what on *earth* does puberty status have to do with this????

[iverglas]

I simply cannot fathom this alleged objection to the vaccine.

The vaccine is against a VIRUS. It is not a hormone injection.

Vaccinations against viruses are given to infants. No one ever seems to complain that infants have not yet started menstruating.

The fact that this virus is transmitted by sexual contact and can cause cancer in a portion of the reproductive tract has absolutely nothing to do with the nature of the vaccine, or the virus.

I mean, not as far as I can tell.

What am I missing??

If it is discovered that a virus causes a common form of tooth decay, and a vaccine is developed against the virus, will there be wailing and moaning if it is proposed to give it to children who still have their baby teeth, which are just gonna fall out anyhow? Surely we will have to worry about how a vaccination against a virus might affect adult tooth development. Never mind that the very notion will be loony, and that for a child who already has the virus when his/her adult teeth come in it will be too late.

Oh well, at least most children aren't likely to die of dental abscesses in later life; those kids will just have to live with root canal, the way I and many thousands of women have lived with cone biopsies. We're still alive, we just don't have our cervixes, but we get along fine, eh?

Cripey. Passeth all understanding, it does.