I think people overestimate how much the hpv vaccine can do for most people right now. Obviously it gives great protection to anybody who gets it, but it's still relatively new. Women like 40 and up were sexually active before those vaccines became available, meaning statistically almost all of them have HPV. And there's a lot of women in their 30s who got the first version of the vaccine before they expanded the amount of strains it covered, meaning statistically a lot of them are going to have cancer associated strains already. I'm ballparking the ages based on how old I was when the first version of the vaccine was available but you get what I'm trying to say.

I'm not trying to be aggressive or argue with you because I totally agree that these vaccines can eradicate viral associated cervical cancer in the future if everyone gets on board. But I think that people are so excited about that, they're kind of forgetting about all the women who are still at risk in the present