PSA: Get your flu shot

[Delfuego]

This past year I've come down with the flu 3 times,

Same here! I usually do not get the flu or get it once, not this year. Hang in there Ginsue, it is a long ride, I am still coughing up garbage almost 2 weeks later.

[Great-Kazoo]

Now that I've reached my senior years I get the shot every year and haven't even had a cold in the last 6 years.

Likewise
A Pneumonia shot doesn't hurt either. After bronchitis morphed to a hospitalized stay i get one as needed.. For those of use in our "senior years" of course

[Aloha_Shooter]

There is a particularly bad strain going around that doesn't appear to be one of the strains incorporated in the flu shot so I'd take it easy on yourself over not having had the flu shot. Remember, every year, the flu shot is to immunize you against a few (of dozens/hundreds) strains of flu that the CDC predicts 2-3 years in advance. There is no single "flu" to immunize against. There is also a really bad non-flu cold or something going around that took me a month or so to really get over (and I still have the occasional cough).

All personal evidence is anecdotal but I used to get the flu shot annually because the AF required it and I probably contracted flu every second or third year. I've ignored the flu shot since retiring from the AF and haven't had flu once (although I have had colds and other illnesses) in the past 8 years despite not being in as good physical condition as I used to be. My doctor asked if I wanted one this year when I took my physical and I told him I was open to it if I had any evidence that it was more effective than it'd been when I was on active duty and he didn't press the point. I think he felt compelled by medical ethics to offer me the shot but he really didn't have any answer to questions about its effectiveness or the accuracy of the CDC's prognostications.

[CS1983]

Flu shot+get's flu = Dr: "well, we cannot always predict the strain, so there is the risk despite getting the flu shot"
Flu shot+no flu = Dr: "Good thing you got the flu shot!" post hoc ergo propter hoc much?

[Guylee]

I got a flu shot once. Now I have a permanent flu and I'm autistic.

[Madeinhb]

The flu shot contains only 5 strains of the flu virus. Doctors try to guess which strains will be the largest. People can still get the flu even if they get the shot. All depends on the strain.

[Gman]

Get well soon T!

[BPTactical]

Thomas is really in menopause guys.
He just says he has the flu when he is having hot flashes and doesn't want to come out and play.

[Great-Kazoo]

Thomas is really in menopause guys.
He just says he has the flu when he is having hot flashes and doesn't want to come out and play.

Since he identifies as male. Wouldn't that be in femaleopause ?

[Gman]

Manopause