On Anti-Vaccine Hysteria

(Letter)

WV received the following undated letter on February 1.

Dear Comrades,

I am writing concerning your article, “Capitalist Reaction and Anti-Vaccine Hysteria.” I found the article to be accurate and informative.

I would like to point out a few things that confirm the accuracy of your article.

In the article you mentioned that vaccine development is covered by “eye dropper” funding while if you say terrorism then it is funded by the billions. I can see that here in Boston where we had to wait for flu vaccines. Meanwhile, however, the federal government is funding a bio-safety lab level 4 in a working class neighborhood. This facility will contain pathogens that are deadly and mostly incurable (see enclosed pamphlet).

You also mentioned that there is religious opposition to young girls receiving the HPV vaccine. While this is true it is also true that the HPV vaccine is beneficial to men as well in that the virus can cause colo-rectal cancer in gay men. Also most women get the virus from infected straight men.

You are also correct in your conclusion in that only in a healthy socialist society will the needs of humanity be taken care of instead of profit and superstitiousness.

Alan N.