The problem with the flu shot is how often they miss the strain, which I believe was this year again (anecdotal).
You're also basically risking getting sick a little bit from the shot to have a small % chance of not getting badly sick. Until it's a little better I'll take my chances.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22032844
Unfortunately behind a paywall, but it does mention
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Influenza vaccines can provide moderate protection against virologically confirmed influenza, but such protection is greatly reduced or absent in some seasons.
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so I'm not sure how reliable our predictions are.
Maybe one of our resident pharmacists can weigh in?