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I was chatting with an older fellow who lives in the building the other day, I had been running and was sweaty.  He said he'd like to exercise more but had "long COVID", which to me is a thing I'm not very clear about.  I infer he had lingering respiratory issues from COVID, or something.  I don't know how true all this is, it at times could be a mistake to just be sedentary, or perhaps there are other issues.

Anyway, if it's a real thing, I'd prefer to minimize any risk of it, and risk of COVID itself.  

There are two things about vaccinations:

1.  The obvious one is protection of the individual to whatever degree,
2.  The second is protection of "Society" by cutting down on transmission.

The flu vaccine is mostly recommended because of the second item for younger folks.  It's unlikely in a given year a person gets the flu, then it's also just a chance the vaccine prevents the right kind of flu.  One can go years without getting the flu.  Ostensibly, if we had 100% vax rates, the flu wouldn't persist (if they get the mix right, which is a major variable in itself).

We both got what I think was the flu a few years back and it was quite unpleasant, and we were in Hawaii.  Anyway, I sense vax intolerance in the US is at record highs now when it comes to COVID, so the second item above isn't going to work well at all.

Yeah, the have to make a decision on flu variants to put in the vaccine quite early, and they can miss some or badly, and the strain prevalent in your area can be different.

I had not been so sick in many decades, it was awful.  I had not been vaccinated, I didn't do the flu vax back then based on what I heard from the CDC lady who decided what goes into the vaccine at the time.  

I went from not getting the flu shot to getting it every season for many years to not caring too much either way

I will get it this season if the opportunity is right.

always seem to be in a bit of a hurry and don't have the extra 15-20 minutes to wait to get the shot

yup, I get mine at the grocery store
usually get a coupon to save 20 cents per gallon on gas
can't set up an appt, but it usually only takes 10 or 15 minutes

it's just that I'm usually in a hurry to get out of that place and think it's so easy I can just do it next time

My wife was positive for Flu-B last month.  We were like wtf.

Good downtick here.

going to my annual checkup biometric screening this morning

might let them give me the flu shot, while I'm sitting there

if they are mixing it with the COVID vax, probably not