Your solution would be equivalent to forcibly bleaching my skin so I could look as white as my classmates. That's not the right kind of "togetherness."
lain:
You make it sound as though I want to strap your kids down and inject them. I am more along the lines of if you wish to attend public school you have to fulfill certain requirements before being allowed to attend. If you do not wish to meet those requirements then it is your responsibility to find alternatives. I would not condone the building of a separate facility for non-vaccinated students.
They can still marry and date, but they can't get a sexually active boy tested before having sex with them?
What one
can do versus what one
will do are often two very different things, especially in affair of the heart.
What degree? How big is the degree? Bigger than the risk of vaccine damage? Don't count all cervical cancers because only a small fraction have vaccine counterpart infections.
Having gone through breast cancer treatments twice with my wife, our opinion that anything we can do to reduce the risks to our daughters is worth the comparatively small risks associated with vaccines.
Plus, how do you know the live HPV won't de-attenuate and still sicken the girls in the long term? No long term studies or autopsy samples have been done that I know of to determine if the virus will be found in human cervical cancers yet.
Do you have any idea how vaccines work? Any at all? The vaccine triggers a response from the bodies own immune system. When the immune system response is complete the virus used in the vaccine is killed and no longer present in the body. It is not there so it cannot possibly mutate and cause problems. The immunity lies in your own immune system that now knows how to recognize the wild virus and can quickly wipe out a wild strain before it has a chance to get established.
You won't prevent tetanus with a tetanus shot. You can still get the infection again, even after a wild-type infection.
That is why tetanus is given every 5 years. The shot will prevent tetanus but hay, if you want your kids to go through
this, be my guest.
What about getting Typhoid every 6 months? Why not, eh? 5,000 cases a year in the USA alone!
Because it is not warranted. Typhoid is considered to be eradicated in the US so it is not routinely vaccinated against. However, if you are going out of the country it is generally required as it is still prevalent in much of the world. And yes, you do need boosters.
Are you arguing that to avoid a disease caused by the complications of forced penetration, you support the forced penetration of my kids' shoulders with needles if they get access to public services they pay for like public school?
No, I'm just trying to get you to understand that vaccines are provide protection all the time, not just while you are at school. I support vaccination as a requirement for attending public schools. A healthy population benefits us all.
