Well, I am recovering from the flu. And even though I got a flu shot last fall, I guess I wasn’t inoculated from the strain that got me.

But, more to the point, how do you know if your flu shot is really working? I mean, if you don’t get the flu was it because of the flu shot or was it because you weren’t exposed? After all, not everyone gets the flu every year. And, I am sure that there are those who never get the shots and never get the flu. But then there are people like me who get the shots and still get the flu.

And, if I hadn’t gotten the shots would I still have gotten the flu? Of course because the flu that I had was not the same flu that the shots prevented. And, what’s more, I may not have even been exposed to the flu that the shot prevented. So, shots or no shots, I would still have gotten the flu but not the flu that the shots prevented.

Well, at least the shots didn’t cost me anything.