What is even scarier is that of the 300,000 flu cases sent to the CDC last year to test only 12.5% of them actually were the flu (i.e. influenza virus). Other things can have flu symptoms, so it is dangerous to just assume it is the flu.

Allegedly the CDC stopped asking for the tests this year. The scary thing is that there is a high probability that something other than the flu may be the bulk of these, and it's not really being investigated or spoken about.

Flu, vaccines, etc have become too politicized. They want the fear and the mass adoption of flu vaccines... even those times they get it wrong and say it was the wrong flu variant... they'll say "But, you should still take it".

I RARELY (5 or 6 years maybe more between cases) get the flu or flu like symptoms. Though both times I got a flu shot are two of the cases where I did get it. In my case, it could have been a reaction to the eggs used as part of the base for the vaccines. All I know is since I stopped taking it more than a decade ago I've maybe had the flu twice.

EDIT: Just so you don't see me as an exception. This has been true of my wife, my six kids, and my grand kids as well. Doing math from the contraindications on the flu vaccines the odds of the vaccine doing something bad to me are higher than the odds of the flu killing me. If I get it, I may feel ill for a few days (or maybe a week), and then I recover. Vaccine contraindications could impact me for the rest of my life. No thanks. And I am not anti-vaccine. I am anti- pushing vaccines for everything, and the fact that the producers of the vaccines have been made so they can't be sued or challenged for bad products. Why do they need that protection? Think about it.