Will you get a flu shot this year or next?

I've had the for-real flu a few times in my life. Kicked my a$$ so hard in late 1970 that I was hospitalized with it for 5 days. 105 fever, couldn't stand up without passing out, and so forth.

Other flu bouts have been less terrible but each was at least a week of misery.

If I contract the flu, I want it to be as light a case as possible. Arming my immune system with flu-strain specific antibodies are my best defense should the virus nasties invade.

DH & I will get our flu shots the first week of October on a day when we have nothing planned the following day. We usually have mild symptoms after a vaccine so schedule couch time for the next 36 hours.
 

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I got one each fall until around 2007. Would get the flu every year late in the season. Since I stopped, (knock on wood) I haven't had the flu. My guess is that with my autoimmune disorders, the flu shot ramped up my immune system, then it dropped off sharply. It's the only way I can halfway make sense of the spring flu pattern when I did get the shots.
 
We got our flu shot at the end of August, as we do every year. We just got our Covid 19 booster, as it was only approved this week at Walgreens in Florida.
 
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