Get your flu shot

[Aristus]

91. The chances of you getting the strain of flu for which the vaccine did not offer protection are

relatively small. The chances of the vaccine failing to provide immunity every year you received it are vanishingly small. We medical providers can be wrong. I've been wrong about diagnoses in the past. I'm not wrong about this. I try to avoid telling patients what they want to hear just because they want to hear it, but not all providers are that scrupulous; and it's possible yours weren't.

It's not like I don't sympathize. We all enjoy the feeling that we know better than others, due to our isolated incidents. We especially like that feeling if it elevates us in our own estimation above informed individuals with much broader and more relevant experience. We live in a time of universal skepticism, and it is the ubiquity of that skepticism that lulls us into believing that that is superior to empiricism.

Regardless, don't go around discouraging people from getting their vaccines and citing your past history as incontrovertible evidence in favor of your argument.