Friends, dreams and how not to...

Very odd.
A long time dear friend of mine has just FB linked to this: https://www.facebook.com/Bthechangeagent/posts/697247353773659


The source for the post seems to be this: http://www.vaccineinjury.info/survey/results-unvaccinated/results-illnesses.html

which is a questionable re-interpretation of this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3057555/


My mate is a nurse, intelligent and incredibly kind, with an open mind and an interest in alternative therapies. She also has the pragmatism that comes from dealing with pee, pus, and poo for decades. She and I studied together and we both know the importance of checking one's sources. I cannot believe she would post this without having reliable information to hand. Maybe she knows something I don't. After all, nursing is her life's work.

I have always believed that parents should have the right not to vaccinate, or to at least insist that vaccines are given singly, but they must have the facts sans distortion before they make such a decision; I'm not sure that's what is happening here.

My best bet is to ignore the post, I think, free speech and all that... But I feel somewhat uneasy. In my dreams last night I was in a tube station. I've been there before. This fictional station's about 5 stops away from London Bridge, and has neither lights nor a track nor a platform,nor a tunnel, only the knowledge that the train is coming in on the left hand side, so everyone waits on the right. I always end up mistakenly on the track with people shouting at me to get out of the way of the train, which turns up really slowly. Engaging with my old mate on the anti-vax issue would feel like that dream. If I had to make the journey, I wouldn't start from here.