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Spotted this morning on the normalfag side of the internet:
Some slut complaining that the HPV vaccine will cost her $600 because she's an adult now, instead of "free" as a child in school. This raises a few questions she should have asked herself, but didn't because she was incapable of self-reflection and utterly fixated on the word "free"
1. "Free" doesn't mean free, it had to be paid for out of the pocket of the school district, which ostensibly is entirely funded by taxes, in which case it's just a roundabout deferred cost to the people, likely inflated in cost, and likely actually paid by continued loans.
2. So now that we conclude that these vaccines aren't actually free, what's the cost and benefit of all these kids getting vaccinated? Ostensibly it costs $12,000 per class per year, or the yearly taxes coming from this one outraged starbucks barista. Surely she'd be happy to find a class' worth of vaccinations, being so virtuous?
3. Why is an HPV vaccine so utterly necessary to begin with? Yes, the benefits may include significantly reduced rates of cervical cancer due to HPV causing certain types of cervical cancer, but that's about it. Good enough, surely a vaccine against cancer sounds amazing, but you have to also realize that it's actually rare to get HPV. Transmission is basically limited to direct sexual transmission, neonatal from the infected mother, transmission from dirty/infected hands to the genitals, and through shared objects like razors and sex toys. That means that HPV transmission can effectively be stopped through both safe sex practices for the habitually promiscuous, or simply not being a promiscuous slut. For those who are habitually promiscuous, who fell in love with someone who has genital warts, or in a generally high-risk category, they can opt-in to the vaccine as adults.
But the first question will never be answered because it admits that free things ain't free, the second will never be answered because "stop being a child-hating science denier," and the third will never be considered because "stop being a closed-minded anti-science slut-shaming bigot."