You can forget about the flu shot. Just get what's going around, grin and bear it and you'll be better off even if you get it than thinking the flu shot is going to prevent infection. We've got people from all over the world coming through here and they're bringing bugs with them that are far worse "colds" than what most of us grew up experiencing here in the USA. I've been told that what folks here have been getting over the last year -- that's so hard to shake -- has come up from, Sudamérica.