--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <r...@...> wrote: <snip> > I've never had a flu shot and I think I only got the > flu once bad enough to have to lay low and just read > a book for a few days. Most years I don't get sick > at all, and if I do get a mild something or other > after the sleep deprivation and crowds of an Amma > event, it's usually not bad enough that I can't work > or do normal things.
Yebbut...that you've been sick with flu only once before doesn't tell you anything about whether you'll get it again--especially the current swine flu, which is new and different, so people don't have antibodies to it. (And if you're able to work and do normal things, that probably isn't the flu anyway, of any type.) The real point is, though, that even if you're not worried about catching the flu yourself, you should get the shot; because if you do catch it, you can spread it to other people who haven't had the shot (even before you actually start having symptoms), and who may be more vulnerable to getting *very* sick if they catch it. You wouldn't just be protecting yourself, in other words.
