Do I need the flu jab?

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I'm 52. Perfectly healthy. Don't go out atm unless to supermarket or for a run. No young DC at school.

I have never had flu.

Should I get it or leave supplies for someone else more needy. Just got a message from gp surgery advising that. I can book in.

YABU of course you should. Save the elderly
YANBU nah...dont bother

YANBU

I was 49 when I caught the flu in April 2019 (I’m 51 now). It turned into pneumonia and I was nearly hospitalised. (I forgot to book it privately the previous autumn.) I ended up with CFS and now have long Covid. The price has been high for me. Flu can be really serious, so I would have the vaccine if I were you. Especially with the risk of Covid right now; you wouldn’t want to end up with both flu and Covid at the same time.

It also protects more vulnerable people from catching it from you. My DD1 (now 11) was going through therapy and I caught the flu from her therapist, who was still symptomatic during one session. She was recovering but came back to work too soon.

It isn’t just for your own sake, it’s to reduce the spread, which is particularly important right now.

You don’t get it for free unless you need it, you are not stealing it from someone more needy, everyone should have it, even pay for it, it does save lives

yes - below 40 here....just. I have had it! I paid too and will now every year if im honest.

We all get it every year. I’m required to for my job (ICU). The rest of my family get it because they are fit and healthy and I’d like them to stay that way. Fit and healthy people can die from flu. They can also pass it on to less fit and healthy people.

Due to the covid restrictions and increased uptake of flu vaccination over our winter, this is the first year in long time I haven’t had at least one perfectly healthy adult or child on ECMO with influenza.

The PP who thinks that if you haven’t got if so far you’re fine.....is simply rather stupid.

Well you're not in a particularly high risk group but most of those people will have been vaccinated by now so they're widening the net. It's to reduce pressure on the NHS and to keep people of working age in work and not laid up with illness. My work paid for me to have it because I work with the public and it's better that we have healthy public servants right now. But the choice is yours.

Thanks for all the replies.

I might book in for it, have to phone up by the end of this week if I want it.

I figured if thee was a shortage of supplies I'd let someone else have it.