My dear friend, please don't ever feel you need to apologize, especially for taking the time to speak your mind and explain your thinking! I am glad to hear more about you.
I understand that there are some good arguments on both sides of the vaccination question. However, there is one thing on which I am utterly unwilling to compromise:
Whether or not to vaccinate (or undergo any medical procedure, for that matter) is entirely and only a personal decision. The state and society have no right whatsoever to compel or coerce an individual or family to undergo vaccination.
You are welcome to try to persuade me. You can muster all the expert testimony you wish. You can bribe me. You can do anything you like, as long as you do not initiate force to terrorize me or my children to be vaccinated.
And, Heaven help you or anyone if you deceitfully administer a vaccination to my children without my consent when I am not around! :O
My friend, you can also know this: I will never be part of any effort to force you to take a vaccination.
Thank you for your comprehensive comment, and also for sharing your Filipino saying about God and man... :D
Very true. At the end of the day, whatever medical procedure should require the approval of the person or in the case of minors, their parents or their guardians. Unless of course it's a life and death situation which vaccination is not. It actually tries my nerves when some medical practitioners try to get me to do/avail of something which I say I need to think about first. The horrors of ICU stays where I've been given plenty of something I knew was wrong which they eventually corrected after I took hostage my IV lines and feeding tube still makes me angry. Ah! I got off-topic. On the plus side, vaccination is expensive here so no medical practitioner is going to force people knowing they can't probably pay for it. And so the parents who would go for it would have to be those that have truly decided that vaccination is the way for them. (And thanks for not minding my TLDRs)