Zap, I think everyone has the right to take it personally and be offended if they want. LIke another poster said, the WC vaccine is virtually useless, so people are essentially asking other people to be 'vaccinated' when 1, the vaccine is so ineffective now that it's likely to not work. 2, that the current vaccine does not protect against ALL mutations of WC and it's entirely possible that most people will get the one that ISN'T preventable and 3, Vaccines breed complacency. Someone can still have the shot, turn up at your doorstep ready to hold baby and STILL have WC but they don'think that they can possibly have WC because they had the shot kwim?

You've had an experience where it could have ended up bad and that is clouding your opinion on it. I prefer to think rationally and logically and look at the stats on this one. My SIL expected all of us to get boosters just recently for when her next baby is born and I told her flat out no, I had the brains to keep us away if we were sick and told her about the current stats on the vaccine anyway. To a newborn, ANY illness can be deadly so to me, its a logic fail to make people get the WC vaccine/booster when there are other things just as deadly that CAN'T be vaccinated against. I fully respect that you have every right to ask, but you have to respect that people may say no.