I spend my life looking at population data, sometimes including morbidity statistics, and I pay more attention to that than people in health food shops, anti-vaxxers waving their latest pet article at me, and so on. I can interpret data myself so I don't rely on other people giving me their view depending on what they have decided to cherry pick.
It's clear to me that vaccination saves lives, lots of lives. It also prevents disability. At a population level. You can see this in the international data.
There is also a minute risk that the vaccination will cause disability in children, but this risk is significantly smaller than the risk I take every time I bundle them into a car, let them onto a bouncy castle, or let them use the trampoline in the garden.
On that basis, I have decided to have them vaccinated for everything going.
I also have a personal view based on how I have seen infectious diseases ruining lives.
I also used to teach a little boy who had got measles because he had a cold on the day of the vaccination and it was postponed. He managed to get infected with actual measles before his mother had got around to rescheduling it. He was in intensive care, nearly died, survived but had hearing impairment and various bits of neurological damage.
My cousin had polio as a child and has had a limp all his life. My great-aunt came to visit him in hospital when he was in with polio, and caught it, spend two years in an iron lung and then died.
My third baby was killed when I got the flu - I had not been vaccinated and this was before they made it routinely available to pg women.
I think that anti-vaxxers see what they want to see and are usually people with little or no experience of infectious disease personally, plus they have not explored the data properly themselves and just skim for the bits that support their arguments.