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Originally Posted by D as in David
I hear you. I can't ever remember having the flu since I was a kid so looking at 40+ years since I've had it but I did start getting the flu shot a couple of years ago. Not really sure why I didn't get them before as I've never been anti-vax and I don't experience flu-like symptoms from the shots, anyway.
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Flus are definitely rarer than other common respiratory infections. I think the average for an adult is about once every 5 years for the flu, and sometimes that comes with little to no symptoms. So it's totally possible you haven't knowingly had it in decades.
And that's the fear with COVID. Even if we ignore the severity of it and just treat it similarly to the flu, people are getting it way more often than they ever get the flu, and that can have long-term health implications.