I just hope all the people who "don't get the flu vaccine because they never get the flu" will actually start getting vaccinated. To those people, odds are you

I just hope all the people who "don't get the flu vaccine because they never get the flu" will actually start getting vaccinated. To those people, odds are you don't get the flu because enough people around you did get vaccinated. And also, you're just getting lucky. You may have a better immune system than average, but you are not immune. In 2018, the CDC says >490k were hospitalized and >34k died from the flu. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html It's a serious matter, yet people just brushed it off and came in to work/school sick as a dog. Heck, I remember having to do this with colds in elementary school... It was either: I show up horribly sick, or my grades must suffer. (No, there was no way out of it. Simply punish those trying to protect their community from themselves. Zero tolerance for real life.)