Do you get a flu shot every year? I have no idea how to make this a poll :)

Of never having the flu. I find it a bit hard to believe that over your 50+ years you've never been touched by the flu. I have not had true influenza that much either but it's pretty ubiquitous. Granted, as I recall, you don't have kids who seem to be walking disease factories, so I can accept that you'd be exposed a lot less.

Aaron also pointed out your first statement was not correct as flu-shots contain non-living flu virus. You can still get some live-attenuated flu vaccine through nasal spray instead of injection.

 

Oh, well, that's different then. No flu here anyway

 

There's a lot of correlation-causation issues around vaccinations in general.

 

Famous last words....

" I'm here from the CDC and I'm here to help."

 

And this is why I am sometimes skeptical of your claims.

 

Which claims?

I'll say it again, and you can just call me a liar if you wish.

I have never taken a flu shot, and, I have never had the flu.

 

The nasal version does contain live virus.

 

Skeptical does not equal me thinking you a liar. I can readily accept you never getting a flu shot. I am not so willing about NEVER having the flu. But there is no way of ever determining the truth to that other than your claim. Memories are not ironclad, as you should well know.

 

Is it not possible to have the flu and not know it? I mean obviously you know you’re sick. But I don’t always know what I have. Maybe it’s a cold. Maybe it’s a mild flu. I take stuff. I get better. If I don’t see the doctor, how do I know what I really had?

 

I’m not sure what “half live” is.

Dr. Norman Geisler said when he turned 50, his wife said he would live to be 100. He said, “How do you know that?” She replied, “Because you look half-dead already.”

 

I think he means that the strains of flu in the vaccine are deactivated.