re: How can anybody be anti-vax in a time like this

I'm 54, and I only got the flu vaccine once while at work - someone came in and gave shots to the workplace, and I got talked into it by colleagues. Before that it would've been before junior high, when I was a kid and my mother took me.

And I've never experienced the flu either. Not like how people always talk about it - I get a cold pretty much every winter, sometimes twice. For 3-5 days sinus congestion, with sneezing, then more congestion leading to runny nose and at most my face feels tight from the congestion.

But around 4-5 days of that my sinuses drain out, the sneezing stops, and it's over. All the talk of nausea, sickness, body aches and joint soreness, loss of energy or appetite, or headaches, inability to taste food for a few days. That kind of bed-ridden sickness that people always refer to when talking about getting the flu, I have never experienced. Ever.

But I also never get headaches, and only spent 2 nights in a hospital that was 30 years apart and for the same thing. And neither of those nights were really something that needed to be done.

I know that as I get older and my immune system starts to fail (it's inevitable), that I'll become more vulnerable. This type of thing is making me feel like I need to start getting them, but I always felt that the time I start, will be the time I start getting the flu, although I know that's a myth....