I'm sorry to hear that. I agree, and have gotten my flu shot every year, the pneumonia vaccine and shingles vaccine with a booster, even though I get flu like symptoms from the flu and pneumonia vaccine that leaves me sick for 3 days. But how can you avoid shopping for food? Or in my case, working with sick people, every day. Now we have children that get sick at the drop of a hat. They rarely play outside. I can only speak for myself and my brother, but we played in the dirt, exposing ourselves to all the most common germs in the environment. There is a cemetery from the early 1700's, two towns away from me. One day, I took a stroll through it to see the names of the people buried there. In the late 1730's, on two separate occasions whole groups of family members from separate families perished in a few short months. This was always an affluent area, no one starved to death, but I'm sure no one had access to all the nutrition we have, today, either. I would have to guess it was from the flu as the deaths occurred in the late fall and early winter months, when people huddled together for warmth and comfort. We have forgotten just how deadly these germs were to our ancestors...