I've always felt the same way.
I've never taken a flu shot.
I've gotten the flu maybe a half dozen times in the past
20 years.
I got the flu last year, though, and I'm in my sixties now,
and it laid me out like never before.

I'm seriously considering taking it now.
I don't EVEN want to go through ANYTHING like
my last bout with the flu.

I'm not a nut about vaccines.
I had every childhood disease that came down the pike
except polio. I got THAT vaccine, but I got the measles,
mumps, and chicken pox which my younger brothers
who were vaccinated against them, never got.
So I know vaccines work, though the flu vaccine seems
to be hit or miss depending on what strains the filthy
Chinese send our way.

I just may start taking the flu vaccine, even if it only provides
a small chnce for immunity against whatever bug
pops up.