Should I get a flu shot this year?

[jmyrlefuller]

Everyone who gets a 'flu shot' dies.

'Course, everyone who doesn't get a flu shot also dies.

[Hoodat]

I will let you all know how the COVID vaccination goes after I get it.  Just don't know when that will be.

If you have a reaction to it, then it means you would have gotten sick if you had contracted it.  If you don't have a reaction to the vaccine, then you probably would have remained asymptomatic from getting it.

[GtHawk]

'Course, everyone who doesn't get a flu shot also dies.

Yup, death is the not so elite club that everyone gets to join....sooner or later.

[libertybele]

Yup, death is the not so elite club that everyone gets to join....sooner or later.

Yes, everyone eventually dies.  I don't see the COVID vaccine prolonging life, or enhancing quality of life; same with the flu shot.  There are no guarantees.

[LegalAmerican]

No more flu shots for me!  And no COVID vaccines either!

The last flu shot I received was FREE...that convinced me to get one.  Then I came down with 103 fever,( I am senior,) I was so sick, and my arm that had the shot was all red and swollen. I could not move it.  I used my other arm to place the 'shot arm' where I wanted it.  I was so sick with flu.  They claim it was a coincidence.  LIARS.  hat was close to 20 years ago. I vowed to never get a flu shot again.  I haven't.  If one still gets sick, what is the point? That shot GIVES you the flu.
No flu, since that time.  No shot. No flu. Works for me.

[LegalAmerican]

Just throwing it out there for discussion...I usually get a flu shot every year, and I'll be seeing my doctor for my regular visit in two weeks. I consider myself in good health, despite being Type 2 diabetic for 6-7 years.

I got my flu shot last year, but still got the flu last February, laid up for a week (could it have been Covid?). My wife's telling me not to get the shot, but I'm leaning towards getting it. Her various pronouncements and demands since she retired last year are wearing me out, it's getting to the point where whenever she says no, I say yes.   

BTW, I've lost about 5-7 pounds over the past month, I'm attributing it to cutting way back on fast food, don't see any other reason. I celebrated after my walk yesterday by getting a McRib.  lol

Listen to your wife.  Most diabetics lose weight.  She is correct.

[roamer_1]

I have never had a flu shot in my life, and outside of childhood vacs, have had no others... Other than tetanus, which I did for a while because I am in poop and rusty sharp iron all the time, But I ain't had that neither for at least 20 years.

[Smokin Joe]

Damn!  That's the same day I'm getting mine!

Mine is the week after that. I have never had a flu shot, and seldom even get colds.