# Did you get a flu shot this year? Did you get the flu?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 7, 2018, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-flu-shot-this-year-did-you-get-the-flu/808352 "2018-02-07T06:05:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 9, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-get-a-flu-shot-this-year-did-you-get-the-flu/808352/62 "2018-02-09T04:23:55Z")

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My choice: “I did not get the vaccine and did NOT get the flu”

So far, of course.

Here’s my post from 2010 explaining why.

> [@Why should(n't) I get the H1N1 vaccine?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-nt-i-get-the-h1n1-vaccine/528640/6):
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> I’m nearly 60, and I do have asthma, so theoretically my risk is elevated. But I haven’t gotten one because
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> 1. I never get flu. Cold, bronchitis, yes, once or twice a year. But not flu.
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> 2. The virulence and transmissibility of this year’s flu were uncertain.
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> I’ve gotten a flu shot very rarely. The last time in the past 20 years was for the bird flu in 2006. That was because there was good evidence for airborne transmission, and the mortality rate for confirmed cases was 60 percent (although there’s no way to know how many people were exposed and how many with mild cases didn’t go to a doctor).

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