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In reply to the discussion: The world must accept that the HPV vaccine is safe [View all]restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)176. not a fan of the seat belt thing either. nt
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so we should require vacs for diseases not spread through casual contact?
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#38
Just don't try to get your kids into public schools without their vaccinations.
longship
Dec 2015
#190
" thst doesn't mean i support a mandated vaccine... for a disease not casually spread. "
zigby
Dec 2015
#198
and people are free to get the vaccine if they want to protect themselves in case of crime
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#200
This is exactly the kind of nonsense that drives some people toward the right.
WillowTree
Dec 2015
#205
The disease that we're talking about here is not spread through casual contact.
WillowTree
Dec 2015
#305
It seems it does. You appear to have a problem with vaccinations against sexually transmitted
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2015
#322
Would you be in favor of the state marching into your home, holding you down and forcing
MADem
Dec 2015
#264
Wonderful--pay your five hundred dollars and take the shot, then. Encourage others to do it, too.
MADem
Dec 2015
#116
i must agree. if it was about public good and not profit, it wouldnt bring a profit. nt.
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#181
More to the point, the damn thing is now included in the ACA, which the poster doesn't mention.
MADem
Dec 2015
#262
Yes, they are, and they should be given to children when parents, in consultation with their doctors
MADem
Dec 2015
#235
Yes, I have. If it was so "not worth discussion" why do you keep crying at me because
MADem
Dec 2015
#258
Here--let's UNCOMPLICATE it....let's take you, and the state, out of the equation.
MADem
Dec 2015
#266
Retiring NVICP Special Master Denise Vowell modulated her convoluted legal decisions over 6 years.
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2015
#304
Every part of your post is false. That's on every level, incidentally. (nt)
proverbialwisdom
Dec 2015
#319
i think i found it on bing images but here is an article with the info in text form
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#13
because if i am not going to get it by someone sneezing on me in a classroom,
restorefreedom
Dec 2015
#70
It says that you have libertarian tendencies. Who knows if your username is an ironic joke?
xocet
Dec 2015
#297
That definition has not a single thing to do with your self-purported support of science. Try again.
xocet
Dec 2015
#303
They should all be required, even when you think girls don't do that kind of thing. (nt)
jeff47
Dec 2015
#167
It is not ethical to withhold those vaccines, and leave people unprotected at that point in life.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#36
If your kid is going to school with everyone else, no, it's not just up to the parent.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#51
And to protect children. Rather like car seat requirements. Are you against those too.
uppityperson
Dec 2015
#72
It isn't propaganda, it's a fact. The vaccine only works for 70% of the viruses.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#110
Two out of three ain't bad for gambling, but not for making health decisions. I agree w/you. nt
MADem
Dec 2015
#49
That makes no sense, how is reducing risk by about 70% a bad medical decision? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#75
What woman isn't going to get regular pap smears and examinations with the use of vaccines, that...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#125
This is why more research needs to be done. And why people at risk for a blood clot
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#130
If no causal link is established, what then? What will be your next objection? Because it sounds...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#140
But HIV is most often no longer fatal either, with the right cocktail of anti-virals you can live...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#149
When that mythical vaccine is developed, I would want to know what the safety data
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#152
How many years are acceptable to you for such a study, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, 100...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#160
It's not the years that matters. It's how studies are conducted and how many subjects are studied.
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#164
70% of women don't get cervical cancer!!!! In the vast majority of HPV exposures, the virus
pnwmom
Dec 2015
#129
Yeah...Using shorthand because this is a message board and not a scientific journal.
jeff47
Dec 2015
#132
Are you talking to yourself? Because everything you say applies to YOUR contributions here,
MADem
Dec 2015
#274
So now we should remove it from the US schedule because other countries haven't caught up?
jeff47
Dec 2015
#131
If these anti-vax nutters were in charge of public health back in the middle of the last century...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2015
#79
Young women's bodies spontaneously rid themselves of HPV and that's who's marketed to.
KittyWampus
Dec 2015
#124
It's a vaccine for some of the causes of some of the precursors for some cervical cancers
Recursion
Dec 2015
#187
Oh, stop bringing adult, nuanced points to a discussion that is determined to demonize some
MADem
Dec 2015
#211
Hey, pious one, do you have any idea how much time, effort, and money I dedicate to vaccinations?
Recursion
Dec 2015
#225
Actually, I had no idea that the DU anti-V crowd would be so vehement in this era.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#207
DU, we have a problem. Anti-vaccine members continue to dominate many threads.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#238
It's the title of the piece in the OP. And that's not an excuse for anti-vaccine nonsense.
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#309
Exactly, and yet many people think they can just make it up as they go along...
HuckleB
Dec 2015
#284
'You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.'
Liberal Veteran
Dec 2015
#313