I remember those days....funny thing is when you get 8 shots in basic and only 6 are listed in your medical files??? Kinda makes you wonder, dont it? When I was in the national guard, they still had madatory flu vaccines but when your a weekend warrior, you get to use the "i already got one at the doctors office" excuse and they let you skip out.
as for the building your own immune system thing I posted earlier, it only takes common sense to figure that one out. Your immune system is like you...if you sat in a chair all day and did nothing, you get lazy and out of shape, then when you actually have to get up and try to move you chair you end up throwing your back out or you find out youve just become too damn weak to do it. Immune system works the same way. If you dont let it keep in sahpe by dealing with the little bacterias and things that its intended to deal with on a daily basis, then when something bigger and badder comes along,(like the swine flu) it cant handle it! Constantly washing your hands and using hand sanitizer, and using tons of allergy meds and getting vaccines for every little bug that comes out only serves to leave your immune system "sittting on the couch". People have become germophobes and are to ignorant to realize that all the little "harmless" germs that they try to avoid every day were put here to help them. Use your friggen heads people! You learned this crap is 10th grade biology for christs sake!