I agree. But everyone I know here smugly says, "Oh, you can get sick from the flu shot...so and so got sick, so and so got sick...We would never do that!" Well, you can get some mild fever for a few days if you had something in your system already, or as a reaction from the shot...but NOTHING like the flu! Last few times I had the flu, in the 80's and before that, the Hong Kong Flu in 1970 -- it hit so suddenly, I was on the floor. With the Hong Kong Flu, because I have allergies and am prone to bronchitis and now sinusitis, it took me FIVE months go stop coughing up stuff and FIVE courses of antibiotics. I lay in bed like a beached whale for months. as I remember. I NEVER want to go through that again.There's also a pneumonia shot you can now get..it costs, but as soon as I get over this virus, I want it. A little warning -- a friend of mine died from pneumonia last year. He was, of course, 69 (to me, that suddenly no longer seems so old), but a hale and hearty western actor, a goldminer and garlic-grower and traveler. He refused to get the flu shot every year because he insisted he'd get sick from it. Instead, he died. He already had some physical problems and he was older, I will admit, but when flu and then the pneumonia hit, it was too much for him. You never want to die on life support as scared as he was.