Are you thoroughly satisfied that vaccination is the very best option for your child?

Vaccination has become such a hot topic in the last few years, yet no-one cared who was vaccinated or not in the previous 50 years. Polio, and small pox have long since gone, even measles was declared eliminated from Australia. 

Today, people are vilified for having an infection that was once a normal part of childhood: for infections that were expected and easily dealt with for the vast majority of Australian children. Meanwhile, our children have exchanged these infections for all manner of diseases, rarely heard of in earlier generations of children. 

Something has changed and Australian parents are now encouraged to be afraid of these childhood infections, along with many others we had never heard of, until vaccine time. 

Only 10 years ago, no-one knew who was vaccinated, no-one asked (except occasionally a doctor) and no-one cared. 

Our children are not dying from these infections, but a thousand under 12 months of age die every year from other problems, like heart disease and SIDS or SUIDS. We did not have epidemic deaths and damage from these infections in the 1960s - 2000s, with only 70-80% vaccination, so why do we need 100% coverage now? When vaccination didn't matter back then,  why are we demonising those who don't want to vaccinate now?

So many questions... not enough thought out answers.....