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Ok. Why is it so absolutely critical that I, a healthy adult, get it -- if the odds of me requiring hospitalization are near-zero? I likely already had it and didn't even develop a cough.
Nearly 50% of US covid deaths also had influenza/pneumonia. Subtract the 95% of US covid deaths that had comorbidities (influenza, cardiac arrest, suicide, SIDS, fell off a ladder, car accident, drug overdose, struck by lightning...) and we're left with 20,000 US deaths last year.
The seasonal flu shot has been -- *and still is* -- optional despite being responsible for 30,000 US deaths every year. There's no massive campaign telling everyone "get your seasonal flu shot or be denied normalcy". Nobody's being called a selfish grandma-killer antivaxxer for not getting a flu shot.
There's nothing here!