I am old enough to have seen the effects of whooping cough and polio, young enough to have avoided diphtheria. So called 'brainwashing' comes, not from governments, but from the experience of those who have witnessed the effects of the non-availabilty of vaccines or the refusal by parents who consider they can protect within the herd immunity provided by those who have the common-sense to protect their children in any way they can and vaccination is by far the best way. Why would anyone allow their child to be exposed to a preventable disease?