Wow! All these years I never got a flu shot because I’m fairly healthy adult male who (to be honest) just couldn’t be bothered. But now! Now my decision NOT to get a flu shot is the most noble form of public self sacrifice.
I am a paragon of public health virtue! I’m leaving the shots for the kids, the elderly, and the needy! Kudos to me!
Maybe they’ll name an award after me. “He abstained, that others might live!”
Congrats man! Now go and get sick and show them how to beat it without the shot!
Man we’re on the same wavelength! If that flu bug shows up I’m going to tell my immune system to kick it’s ass!
I didn’t get mine. I only even discovered I was entitled to one last year, despite being asthmatic since I was a kid. Well done my previous GP, and even less reason to wonder why I left him :rolleyes:
Anyway, I really couldn’t be bothered. I though, 3 miles round trip, how much CO2, how much trace pollutants, etc etc?
(OK, I was hung over.)
You’ve got me beat! Self sacrificing and a protector of the environment! It’s no wonder those gentle giants of the forest call you “The Man”.
I’ve never gotten one. Don’t plan too. I rarely get sick.
Nice to know I’m a hero by doing nothing. Gee, that was easy!
I’ve never gotten one, either. That’s 23 people total (one for each year of my life I could have gotten one) that could get a flu shot because I declined one, leaving enough vaccine for them!
Also, I’ve never had the flu.
I have never had a flu shot in my life. I have had the flu exactly twice in 33 years. It sucks and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but it doesn’t suck enough for me to take the vaccine rather than letting it go to someone who really needs it.
My dad got the flu shot twice, each time he somehow wound up with debilitating Pneumonia. 
I don’t know how the hell that works, but whether Correlation=Causation or not, I’m not touching that death-juice with a ten-foot pole :eek:
Besides, the worst that the flu does for me is make me a bit grippy for a few days. I rarely, if ever, get the throwing up/diarrhea level. So I’m willing to risk feeling like crap for 3 days/year to potentially save someone else’s life. And as others have said, I don’t have to do anything at all to accomplish that! Its a slacker’s charity dream! 
Until this year, I never knew that you could get a flu shot if you weren’t very elderly or frail. It just wasn’t ever something I had thought was allowed.
No, it means you are a selfish, inconsiderate bastard who will destroy the herd immunity and wreak havoc on millions of unsuspecting citizens. Unclean! Unclean! Won’t you please think of the children?
(Actually, I’ve never had a flu shot either, and don’t see the point of it unless you’re old or immunodeficient. Yeah, having the flu sucks, but it isn’t like it’s polio or something. Suck it up, people, there are worse things than having to stay in bed for a week. And I’ve only had the flu twice, and both those times were when I was in public school with lots of germy kids. I think I’d actually enjoy having the flu this year, it would distract me from all the other shit going on in my life.)
Never had a flu shot in my 18 years of life. Had the flu once a few years ago. Never plan on having one, either.
Me? I’m not selfless. Now that my parents no longer get to make medical decisions for me, the only way I’m even getting near any medical facility is if I’m dying or something and don’t have much of a say in it.
Uh, because I don’t want to bog down the system, of course! Leave the resources for those who truly need it! Doesn’t have anything to do with baseless phobias or nothing, nope, not at all…
This year, and every year, I risk my health so that others can avoid the flu. I may have saved lives. I may be the reason an elderly woman lived long enough to see her first great-grandchild. I may be responsible for a child being forced to attend school every day, because unlike his friends, he never got sick. I may be the only person standing between a school teacher and complete anhiliation.
I think it’s high-time we’re recognized as the truly selfless, brave, amazing individuals we are.
God Bless every selfless one of us! Are we “heros” yet?
Still waiting for my decoder ring to come in the mail 
Yeah, well I didn’t get my flu shot before you didn’t get yours, so I think we know who the award should really be named after… 
Wow, I’m off to get mine on Tuesday, and there y’all go, makin me feel bad about it.
In my defense though, I am in Canada, land of the free (flu shots) and home of the plentiful (flu shots).
And my father-in-law just had a heart transplant, has a depressed immune system, and the flu could kill him, so everyone around him needs to be shot up.
Personally, I’d rather not have it, but there you go.
In the last 10 years I have gotten the flu shot once and got the flu once - the same year. Of course, I suppose it is coincidense, but I stopped getting them after that.
I haven’t got one either. But then, I’m in the UK and aren’t entitled to one.
I’ m entitled to one, as is my fiance. I will not get one this year, but I’m trying to convince him that he needs it. I have never had the flu - even a cold is only 2-3 days (max) of sneezing, rarely anything else, so I don’t see the point of getting the shot. My fiance, on the other hand, gets the flu every couple of years, or at least one really bad bed-ridden cold, and so I think its worth it for him to get the shot. He doesn’t disagree with me, but I also don’t imagine him willingly going to get the shot.