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Originally Posted by Bossxr8
And how many years has it been common for large portions of the population to get it? Not many.
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The furthest I could go back was to 2002 influenza vaccine survey where they surveyed 8000 people in the target demographic (aged 40 and over) and came to 76.9% coverage rate of people who got vaccinated.
https://www.aihw.gov.au/getmedia/a8e...px?inline=true
If you don't want to get a flu shot then that's ok, noone is going to force you to get one, but perhaps realise and acknowledge that rather than your immune system being an unstoppable force, your friends/family/workmates/people in your community/etc are providing something of a circle around you and protecting you from getting sick. If you don't want to contribute back to that circle to protect others, so be it, but see it for what it is.