[ArmyTeach]

My military husband had his recommended (obligatory) yearly flu vaccination for many years, until he noted that he came down with the flu every year. He hasn’t had a flu shot for many years and has never come down with the flu. For that matter, neither have I.

[ansel12]

I doubt that I have ever had the flu, I wouldn’t even know how to tell if I had it.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

My military husband had his recommended (obligatory) yearly flu vaccination for many years, until he noted that he came down with the flu every year. He hasn’t had a flu shot for many years and has never come down with the flu. For that matter, neither have I.

I don't think the flu shot actually causes flu, but what may have happened to your husband is that the shot weakened his immunity and allowed him to catch a strain of the virus that was either not included in that shot, or which he had never been exposed to before. He can be thankful it was only flu.

[jttpwalsh]

He hasn’t had a flu shot for many years

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Last time I got a flu shot was over 20 years ago. I became ill, the next day, and then caught the flu, a month later. Got the flu once, since then, about nine years ago - I prefer to take my chances.

[momincombatboots]

Ditto here. I have been exposed to confirmed cases at least a hundred times these last two years. Maybe I had a good case of that pandemic 68 flu, the year I was born. Who knows.. I do know, no one starts getting the flu until people get vaccinated. Every year, as predictable as a democrat raising taxes.. first the vax, then next thing you know we are all going to die of the flu. Full disclosure, I wash with soap and water after any exposure.