Time for Flu Shots

I don't get the flu shot & I'm around many people w/the flu every year. I got the shot once about 6 years ago when I worked part time in the ER. Besides that, I haven't got the shot in probably 15 years & have gotten the flu once. It was the year I got the shot. No thanks.

The composition of the 2019-2020 flu shot will be slightly different from last season's flu shot. Specifically, there will be a different strain of the H1N1 virus and a different strain of the H2N3 virus in this season's flu shot, compared with last season's shot. According to the CDC, the 2019-2020 trivalent flu shot will contain the following strains of the flu virus:

A/Brisbane/02/2018 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus — This is the H1N1 component that is different from last year's flu shot.
A/Kansas/14/2017 (H3N2)-like virus — This is the H3N2 component that is different from last year's flu shot.
B/Colorado/06/2017-like (Victoria lineage) virus — This is the influenza B strain component that is the same as last year's shot.
The 2019-2020 quadrivalent vaccine will also contain a second influenza B strain called "B/Phuket/3073/2013-like (Yamagata lineage) virus," which was also included in last season's quadrivalent vaccine.

I took one but according to the CDC this years shot is a complete miss for the strain of flu that has already started. The best defense for us retired folks is to just stay away from other people as much as possible.