@Creepycaterpillar
I'm not allowed back on twitter after The Incident. I've promised DH & DS I won't take my impulsive arse back on there, and have the fall out spill out off the internet and into their real lives again.
So, can you pass this on. Dear Graham, I see you follow Andy from the Quackometer. He won't remember me, but about a decade ago he gently and persistently talked me away from the anti-vaxxers.
Can you let him know I am as grateful today as I was then. The little boy he talked me into vaccinating is now a strapping 18 yo, just signed to a pro sports team, as healthy and strong as an ox, and protected from as many diseases as I can stab him with vaccinations for.
Thank you Andy for being the brakes on my ADHD, so I could better protect the person I love the most in this world. He also says thank you. He is a trainee coach for junior sports teams as well as a player. He catches all sorts of lurgies from the teeny tinies. But isn't at anything like the same level of risk of catching potentially career & life changing/ending diseases from them, while following his passion.
On the days when it feels like you are banging your head against a brick wall, please remember there is a family this side of the alps who remain very, very grateful to you. And I am willing to bet that all over the world there are many others just like us.
PS Andy, I am not surprised you are one of the few of the old skeptical crowd willing to put your head up in the firing line over the TRA issue. Of everybody you seemed the least concerned with the high profile, and the most committed to the principle of protecting the more vulnerable from the shinanigins of those who would exploit, use, or trample them. Which IMO, is why it was you who penetrated and blew away my fear of vaccinations fog, and not anybody else. 