I got the flu shot the past several years and it seemed to help but won’t get it any longer because I don’t trust the system any more. I haven't gotten the flu shot for years. I will never get any shots again for anything. I don't trust them I wouldn’t bother getting the flu shot either. I got the flu shot once in the 1990’s and was sick as a dog for 5 days straight, :wacko: I’m rarely sick and if I do get “the flu” (once every 10 years ?) it’s very mild and last 1 day. So I think I will take my chances since the odds are in my favor NOT to. B-) i dont either Yohanan. yesterday i went to the hospital for a test, an appointment set months ago. there was a sign on the entry to show your vaxx passport and id. i asked if i had to be vaccinated to be seen. they said what are you here for? I showed the hospital check point guards the appointment on my cell phone. i was let in but creeped out. here are people who have been near way more people than I have been, deciding if I can be seen. i would have had less contact if i could have walked in the door and gone to the appointment site without being stopped and questioned. i had flu vax in some years, but most years not. i don't want another vax again. :negative: In the fall of 2019, my manager called me to her office. She wanted to send me to the English school to promote the flu shot. I thought: oh, no. What have I done to deserve this? She said somewhat enthusiastically: you get the flu shot, right? me: no! Her face fell. I remember that look. I guess she quickly recovered from that and still wanted to send me to do the job instead of another colleague. She knew how good I can interact with people at different language levels. I had to do the presentation to people who barely understood English to more fluent speakers and everywhere in between........... I can easily adjust the presentation and the way I am speaking. We had a PowerPoint prepared by Public Health, but it made no sense to keep connecting the equipment in different classes for a 15 minute presentation so we got a big board and attached different material to it. Our heath care centre was going to give the shots to student who signed up for them after the presentation so they sent me a long list of adverse reactions. I was at my desk adding this info to my presentation when my manager came around and asked me what I was doing. When I told her she groaned: oh, no! I was really surprised with her reaction. Are we supposed to promote the shot and not tell the students all the possible adverse events? so off I go carrying my big board, entering each class and telling the students: the flu shot is your best defense against the flu ( in my mind, I am thinking. Yeah right! What happened to our immune system) but getting the flu shot will not necessarily protect you from getting the flu (so why are we getting that thing!) and then I go over all the side effects. You ought to see the look on some of the students face especially when I get to GB syndrome. Every time I leave a classroom, I felt more and more like an idiot. so what are we saying: the flu shot is your best defense, but you might still get the flu and now for the long list of adverse events every time I left a classroom, I was feeling more embarrassed and more like an idiot. Oh, no! 3 more classrooms to go to......... I must have made the presentation for over 100 students. How many students signed up for the shot: 12 students. Oh, well, maybe they already got the shots at their doctor's office or maybe I did not sound too enthusiastic.............. 
