Flu shots

It's that time of year again. Even if you don't care about your own health, get a flu shot.  Like the popular meme says, you don't get a flu shot to protect yourself (though that's part of it) you get the flu shot to protect your grandmother, newborn child, friend with a weakened immune system...any many more people. The ultimate sign of selfishness is to not get a flu shot.

Yes, even if you get a flu shot you might still get sick. It's only about 50% effective, sometimes even less. But here's the good news-50% effective is better than 0% effective. When you jump out of an airplane, would you rather have 50/50 odds of the parachute opening, or no chance of it opening? Yes, even if you don't get the flu shot you still might not  get the flu. And yes, sometimes when you play Russian roulette just based on dumb luck you don't get stuck with the the chamber that has the bullet on it.