Every year in the Navy I got a Flu shot, every year I got sick. And I wasn't the only one. After I retired I refused to get the damn things for that very reason. My sister, the smarter than everyone nurse said the same thing you just did. I told her she was wrong too and I wasn't getting the damned things. I didn't, and never did get the flu nor the fever and chills thing.
But, when the grand-kids moved in with us and the whole grade school petri dish incubator parallel thing occurred to me, I got one. I figured better safe than sorry as that strain was pretty ugly. Sure as crap I got sick, same reaction I've always had. I was sitting in a corner at work wrapped up in my jacket trying to stay warm and pounding water. Went home with a fever and slept for 2 days. Then I ended up catching the flu anygoddamned way!
Thus, I don't really give a tinkers damn what the "experts" think, the damned things make me sick. Fever, chills, the whole nine yards for anywhere from 24 to 48 hours. They always have, they always do. Cause and effect. It is what it is, but's it is reality, at least in my world.
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