There are some very technical reasons why the flu shots vary so widely in efficacy.
That said, your chances of serious illness are decreased even if the shot is not 100% effective against all three or four strains of flu it contains. That is, if you get sick with a strain of H3N2 that is very similar to the H3N2 vaccine that was in the shot, your illness will be shorter and less severe than if you had not had the shot.
I am not sure if I can get the shot this year due to health reasons. Thus, my ability to avoid the flu is dependent on how many people around me get the flu shot. I’ve been telling people that I will barricade myself in my office and let no one in when flu season hits.
Tens of thousands of people in the US die from flu every year. It is not a minor illness.
You go right on ahead and get your flu shot, I have had my last.
I was in great health and had been losing weight to the point I was within 10 lbs of my goal.
On October 22 last year, I got the flu shot.
Within an hour, the bursitis in BOTH shoulders was acting up.
Within 6 hours, my knees hurt too.
Then I got a feeling of general malaise.
Two days after the shot, and everything tasted like crap. The next day, I had gingivitis.
In the last year, I have gained over 35 lbs.
While correlation is most emphatically not causation, I do find my personal adventure somewhat unusual.
One or two simultaneous changes are not a big deal, but when there are this many, every one of which appears to have its origin from the same specific referenced event I really think a much closer look is in order.
Of course, the quacks and dentist all say there cannot be a connection.
I’m living it, they have their training...
I agree with most of what you said except the tens of thousands die from flu each year. The “official death count” spread by the Marxist State Media was 700,000 last year. That figure included people who did not get a flu shot and were killed in car accidents, jaywalking, drowning, drive by shootings, heart attacks, etc. but were counted as dying from the flu.