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I get my flu shot pretty much every year now. I also got the pneumonia shot in 2005 and will be asking for a booster this year cause I’m turning 65.

The average freeper is probably an older adult. It’s not wise to gamble with life and health to argue some political point. A lady in my church in her late 60s almost died last winter because she refuses to receive either shot. She just assumes that she’ll always be healthy enough to beat these things.

BTW, if your 65+ make sure you get the quadrivalent flu shot when you do. Older adults don’t respond to vaccines as effectively as younger ones and need the extra coverage to produce antibodies.

Sixty-five is young! I have family in their seventies and eighties who had heeded advice like yours and got their flu shots annually. But that didn't stop them from catching flu every other year. After two flu-related hospitalizations, our family began research into their health to ease their suffering. Now they take D3 and K2 daily and skip the flu shot. Even the average colds are fewer and further between. They, like us, have joined a growing number of "anecdotes" of supporting evidence to suggest plain old D3 and K2 are more effective than a flu shot on any given year. And there are doctors who have witnessed and documented the phenomena (eg. The Flu Hammer : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/). The political argument is not ours; that falls on the shoulders of governments and pharmaceutical companies. We are just concerned about health and our ability to afford it.

Watching the news out of Australia they are just beginning their flu season. Last year they got a seriously dangerous strain that took quite a few. As I recalled it hit 20 something’s really hard