I got immunity the old fashioned way. I got the swine flu.
It really sucked, but every doc I talked with said it was a “mild” flu. If that is mild, I never want to get regular.
Aww jeesh, we’re back to bird flu now.
My mother (nurse) took care of many people with the 1918 influenza- never ever got influenza til her later years when she was convinced to take the vaccine-for that reason I did not take it, until I did get influenza. Doesn’t sound as though I fared as badly as you, but it was not fun.