Jello wrote:

Schools already make kids get vaccinated for a variety of diseases. Polio, for instance. I don't think you can attend public school without being vaccinated for Mumps, Measles, Rubella or Polio, for instance. The reason for this is that children interact in manners that would allow for transmission: they touch each other, they sit near each other, they cough.

HPV is an epidemic. Most young people have it. Once you accept that children have sex with one another, and therefore act in a way that routinely transmits this disease... it follows that they should be vaccinated, and its no more Orwellian than vaccinating children against Measles, because they cough on one another.

It may be too soon for this to happen. Lord knows we've made mistakes with vaccines before, like the CHAT polio vaccine which may have caused SIV to jump to humans and become HIV. But in general, this is not a bad idea.

Apples to oranges comparison. Read my statements carefully. Nowhere did I state all vaccination is bad. If you are a child in school, you cannot choose who you are around or affect the air you breathe. You CAN however choose who you have sex with. I disagree with MANDATING vaccination for STD's. Especially with a vaccine as questionable as the one Merck is putting out. Check out some of the information being reported to VAERS.

Here's some advice I found:

The surest way to eliminate risk for genital HPV infection is to refrain from any genital contact with another individual.

For those who choose to be sexually active, a long-term, mutually monogamous relationship with an uninfected partner is the strategy most likely to prevent future genital HPV infections. However, it is difficult to determine whether a partner who has been sexually active in the past is currently infected.

For those choosing to be sexually active and who are not in long-term mutually monogamous relationships, reducing the number of sexual partners and choosing a partner less likely to be infected may reduce the risk of genital HPV infection. Partners less likely to be infected include those who have had no or few prior sex partners.

CDC recommended by the way, not from a conservative Christian website. But I guess the CDC is just not "accepting" that all kids in a school are going to fuck each other, no different than coughing or using the same water fountain. Yeah, it's all the same. Sure.

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