Actually I'm trying to stand up for these people.
Sad as it is I live in a city that is at the bottom of the league tables. It is a Fact that illetracy is high in this city. A lot are out of work and on benefits. These people are not stupid nor thick, just living in circumstances beyond their control. They rely heavily on advice given by their doctors, health visitors for correct information, the goverment has to look after these people the most because they are the most dependent on them. I am not beng patronsing at all, quite the reverse, both my parents come from hard backgrounds and the areas which I am talking about.
Lets just pretend all information that these health bodies produce. Getting back to injections.
I've just rang my mother and mother in law to conduct my own mini survey.
Mum: Yes, do you remember pat's brother who lived up the road in an iron lung - Polio. And one of her Uncle's also lived in iron lung. Loads of her friends had measles and whooping cough, one or two died.
MIL: Oh yes I remember kids off school with measles etc. etc. You don't see as much these days.
Me: I remember kids with whooping cough as a child. And the mister up the road who was deaf and couldn't speak properly cos he had measles as a child.
Now: Case of measles at nursery school earlier in the year. Child was fine nobody else caught it. The only other case I remember since I've had children was also measles about 8 years ago.
And besides mumsnet I've heard no - one having a bad reaction to an injection, except the occasional high temperature.
I'm sorry but I cannot believe the government would spend vast amounts of money immunising millions of children if it were unsafe except in a very tiny minority of cases.