“Since I turned 60 I’ve gotten the flu shot every year so far not gotten sick from flu!”
You don’t say how many years that has been, but I am 78 and neither me nor my wife has ever had a flu shot. Our now 46 year old son had one three or four years ago and the end result was that he had to be hospitalized. The injection site on his upper arm swelled up and looked as though it was infected. He was in the hospital several days having it treated. I guess as they say, “you pays your money and you takes your chances!” I do think that going to places where there are large gatherings of people in close quarters enhances your chances of getting all of the communicable diseases, and here in CA with lots of illegals who have no long-term medical history makes the issue of all diseases a lot more problematic. So stay out of the mall and stay out of the theater, and thanks to home shopping and cable TV you don’t have to do either. Besides you can screw two groups by so doing: 1). You don’t fund the Hollywierd crowd and 2). You can avoid a lot of sales tax to the State. I try to not purchase anything on-line from a vendor that has to collect California Sales Tax, and the funny thing now they are figuring out how to “put your order” on an out of state seller in order to give CA residents tax-free purchases.
I have COPD and I need to get the shot every year. I know people don’t think about other people sometimes and there are some people who can’t take the Flu shot. Most people can and should because if they come down with the Flu and spread it to someone who’s immunity is not very good. It could kill them.