"If it were your own child you might not all be quite so pedantic."
Well, perhaps. Or perhaps not -- for myself I know that yet another inflated media scare story wouldn't sway my decision to get any potential children vaccinated. For those who did live through those times, with children, and went the other way, perhaps they have a different perspective, and that's understandable. But sometimes, I think, it actually is better to be emotionally detached from a decision. It's clear what should be done, based on the overwhelming balance of evidence, in terms of vaccination or not. And then, once that's settled, that it's your child or not should be neither here nor there. Of course, it's never so simple as that, but asking the question, "what would I advise someone else to do?" seems a good approach to me. And then you may as well follow your own advice at least once.