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PoindexterOglethorpe

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14. Fifty years with no flu, I think I somehow

Thu Oct 16, 2025, 12:53 PM

Oct 16

have a full-on immunity to influenza of any kind.

I can't figure out why so many people get a flu shot and still get flu. I never get it. I likewise have not gotten Covid. Never get colds.

I'm old enough that I did have all the usual childhood diseases, measles, mumps, and so on. Meanwhile, my immune system does what it's supposed to: I get a disease, recover, never get it again. For me, that also applies to flu.

Again, some fifty years and no flu -- and I don't exactly live in isolation, never in contact with other humans. Right now I'm in a senior living center (Independent and assisted living) and have not noticed any flu here so far.

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My hair has stopped growing. [View all] PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 15 OP

Why you don't get flu shots has me puzzled NoRethugFriends Oct 15 #1

Why bother? PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #11

Maybe so that if you get it again, you don't get very sick or die? NoRethugFriends Oct 16 #13

Fifty years with no flu, I think I somehow PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #14

Me too. There was a flu epidemic in NY ( 77? 78?) when I was riding marybourg Oct 16 #15

I likewise road public busses in DC PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #16

It's just reversed course, that's all Submariner Oct 15 #2

LOL! pandr32 Oct 15 #4

'zactly! n' double quick too! ain't life a miracle! (or mystery?) - -(nt)- stopdiggin Oct 15 #5

Eye brows too. Have to trim them every day. multigraincracker Oct 15 #6

You must be a male. For the most part, we women don't grow eyebrows in old age. If anything, they turn gray and hairs PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 15 #8

Alas, I have even less nose or ear hair than ever before. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 15 #7

Oopsie! my bad Submariner Oct 16 #9

stopped growing or it just isn't growing as fast? Skittles Oct 15 #3

My hair has also stopped growing. Somebody else's hair is growing in its place: JustABozoOnThisBus Oct 16 #10

Nice to know this has happened to someone else also. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 16 #12