Thank Elvis that Measles is not sexually transmitted
19/09/07 03:33 PM
This is the “Age
of Enlightenment”?
If you ever find yourself feeling a little bit smug about living in a country where women do NOT have to cover their face and their ankles in public, where they are allowed to go to school, work, marry the person of their choice and even vote, then just come on down to Ontario and tune in to the debate raging over a vaccine (Gardasil, Merck Frosst) that can actually immunize young women against 4 different strains of the virus which cause 70% of all cases of cancer of the cervix and 90% of genital warts.
This is like two miracles for the price of one, first, that such a vaccine has been developed, and then, that a modern day government will actually pay for the preventative treatment. Imagine that, the holy grail of all of those midnight walkathons, the Terry Fox run, the pink t-shirt run/walk, the quilting bee’s, the daffodil drives, an actual vaccine that can prevent a cancer. And the religious Luddites are in full throated uproar over a plan by the Provincial Government to inoculate almost 85,000 young women in Ontario.
The Catholic School Boards, already under siege in the current electoral climate because of plans by the hard charging Tory, Tory party to screw them out of their exclusive status as a publicly funded separate school system, is engaging in some illogical ranting and foaming at the mouth over the plan to start giving this vaccine to all female grade 8 students in the Province which is to start this month. To be effective, the drug must be administered before any exposure to the virus has occurred.
The virus in question, the HPV or Human Papilloma Virus, which can cause cervical cancer, is sexually transmitted you see and even though almost all citizens of Canada are exposed to this virus during their lifetimes, most without any ill effect but more than a few women subsequently exposed develop cervical cancer and die, yet the school boards are arguing about allowing their precious little ones to have the vaccinations.
The arguments being put forth are embarrassingly ludicrous, “the drug company is making too much money off of this” , “there hasn’t been enough testing” and the granddaddy of them all, “if our girls get this needle we know they they will be promiscuous”. Yeah, better they get cancer. One little needle and all of the graduating class of St. Monica's are going to be contestants in the next America's Next Porn Star on the Fox Network.
Now, I know that young Catholic girls don’t engage in sexual acts, at least they didn’t when Mother Syncleta was beating me senseless once a week with a leather strap back at old St. Luke’s. However, I knew the local abortionist in those days and she was doing a brisk business so somebody was engaged in carnal activity with somebody. Just not the Catholic girls I suppose, not then, not today. Place head in sand and repeat after me. There is no place like home, there is no place like home.
That's it Dorothy, wake up and smell the coffee. OZ is only in your dreams, just like a sex free Catholic population. Let's get this straight, if Catholics weren't having sex there wouldn't be any little Catholics running around and since they are having sex they are going to come into contact with this virus. This should be a no brainer, instead, it seems that all of the No Brains are on the Nay side of the equation.
Twits
If you ever find yourself feeling a little bit smug about living in a country where women do NOT have to cover their face and their ankles in public, where they are allowed to go to school, work, marry the person of their choice and even vote, then just come on down to Ontario and tune in to the debate raging over a vaccine (Gardasil, Merck Frosst) that can actually immunize young women against 4 different strains of the virus which cause 70% of all cases of cancer of the cervix and 90% of genital warts.
This is like two miracles for the price of one, first, that such a vaccine has been developed, and then, that a modern day government will actually pay for the preventative treatment. Imagine that, the holy grail of all of those midnight walkathons, the Terry Fox run, the pink t-shirt run/walk, the quilting bee’s, the daffodil drives, an actual vaccine that can prevent a cancer. And the religious Luddites are in full throated uproar over a plan by the Provincial Government to inoculate almost 85,000 young women in Ontario.
The Catholic School Boards, already under siege in the current electoral climate because of plans by the hard charging Tory, Tory party to screw them out of their exclusive status as a publicly funded separate school system, is engaging in some illogical ranting and foaming at the mouth over the plan to start giving this vaccine to all female grade 8 students in the Province which is to start this month. To be effective, the drug must be administered before any exposure to the virus has occurred.
The virus in question, the HPV or Human Papilloma Virus, which can cause cervical cancer, is sexually transmitted you see and even though almost all citizens of Canada are exposed to this virus during their lifetimes, most without any ill effect but more than a few women subsequently exposed develop cervical cancer and die, yet the school boards are arguing about allowing their precious little ones to have the vaccinations.
The arguments being put forth are embarrassingly ludicrous, “the drug company is making too much money off of this” , “there hasn’t been enough testing” and the granddaddy of them all, “if our girls get this needle we know they they will be promiscuous”. Yeah, better they get cancer. One little needle and all of the graduating class of St. Monica's are going to be contestants in the next America's Next Porn Star on the Fox Network.
Now, I know that young Catholic girls don’t engage in sexual acts, at least they didn’t when Mother Syncleta was beating me senseless once a week with a leather strap back at old St. Luke’s. However, I knew the local abortionist in those days and she was doing a brisk business so somebody was engaged in carnal activity with somebody. Just not the Catholic girls I suppose, not then, not today. Place head in sand and repeat after me. There is no place like home, there is no place like home.
That's it Dorothy, wake up and smell the coffee. OZ is only in your dreams, just like a sex free Catholic population. Let's get this straight, if Catholics weren't having sex there wouldn't be any little Catholics running around and since they are having sex they are going to come into contact with this virus. This should be a no brainer, instead, it seems that all of the No Brains are on the Nay side of the equation.
Twits
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