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Yeah turns out there's a reason for that whole MMR thing
Mumps and Rubella are no walk in the park either as I understand it. We are so spoiled we don't even know how good we have it with these vaccines, because of the vaccines we don't appreciate vaccines.
It's like all these things - I've had people tell me climate change won't amount to anything because "look at the hole in the ozone layer, it just went away". It went away because we did something about it! Same with the millennium bug. People worked round the clock fixing it before it was too late.
The ozone hole has not disappeared. It is shrinking, but there is also a new threat to the ozone layer: the large wild fires are a major problem.
It's not a crisis that features on front pages though, and the main drivers at the time were identified and eliminated (Montreal protocol). I didn't know wildfires had an effect, that's interesting, and worrying.
Yeah mumps is real bad, and iirc rubella is generally not too bad after birth, but if a pregnant person gets it it's known for causing birth defects.
Vaccines are amazing. Like I get that some like covid and smallpox are unpleasant, but even those are better than the disease. And while many people may not like the idea of giving their kid a vaccine for an std, the hpv vaccine prevents cancer.
HPV is everywhere too. Granted the vaccine I believe is only for one or more strains of hpv, while there are a couple of hundred total. But basically anyone that's had sex with anyone has some type of hpv, most people don't show any symptoms for it. But yeah the more problematic ones are a big cause of oral cancers, some anal cancers, cervical, etc.
Also in old age it can do other stuff, like eat into your brain, idk how common that is but it has happened.
Girls who were HPV vaccinated now have almost zero cervical cancer 10 years later.
Free cure for cancer... But nah.
I remember being puzzled that my Christian ("pro-life") parents were so against the HPV vaccine, especially considering that they don't have any daughters.
Turns out they'd prefer women to die of cervical cancer for having sex than to even suggest to a 15yo girl that sex before marriage isn't the most evil thing to ever exist.
Shit is just so painfully fucking stupid and hateful
Same thing at my daughter's school, "the HPV vaccine turns daughters into sluts".
incredible to see this level of ignorance in the 21 century.
Like you literally don't even need to tell them it's an STD if that's your prerogative. Just tell them it's to prevent cancer.
It's so fucking stupid I hate it so much
Nah...they do their own research on the woke agenda to turn their daughter into sluts.
Of course, the irony appears with the teen pregnancies.
I think men and woman can get oral cancers from those same strains, and others, of hpv too. Like throat cancers. But there are like hundreds of strains, near 200 just in people.
Boys should get it as well.
True story - mother in law, Deep South railed against it. She never stood a chance. But we said, effectively “wait, so cancer runs in your family, and this prevents a type of cancer, what kind of monster doesn’t want their grandkids protected from at least some cancer”