Something that hasn't been touched on is the VERIFIED FACT that widely-administered vaccines have contained dangerous contaminants unknown to the medical community at the time (indeed, it was the purported "experts" who were ignorant of the full nature of what they were injecting into people!).
Let me bring your attention to SV40; Simian Vacuolating Virus 40, which was a contaminant of the Polio Vaccine from its inception to the early 1980s, perhaps up to the fall of the Soviet Bloc in 1991. If you're over 40 and received the Polio vaccine in the USA, chances are high that you have SV40 lurking in your body. Transmission between humans via typical means (like the cold/flu, etc) hasn't been substantiated (it's a simian virus, after all), so the Polio vaccine itself was essentially the sole vector of viral transmission. Tens of millions of people were injected with the contaminated vaccines before the virus was discovered and the tainted vaccines were replaced with "safe" batches on a comprehensive global basis. That's to say "safe as far as we know, just like the flu vaccines" until new, presently-unknown dangers are discovered...
What's the big deal you ask?
SV40 causes tumors, and has been found in the "nucleus" of biopsied cancerous growths!
So the next time an "expert" tells you that your distrust of vaccines is rooted in ignorance, remember the FACT that these same kinds of experts, through their dogmatic conviction in the infallibility of the state of medical science, unwittingly infected millions with a virus that escaped their notice for decades.
Now don't get me wrong; I'm not saying that the
concept of vaccines is at fault, but humans make mistakes, and by extension, any product of the human mind and human hands is possibly tainted by the unexpected foul fruits of human ignorance. The flu vaccine is
probably a net-positive, but maintaining a healthy skepticism is the best course of action in my opinion. Individuals (usually left-leaning) who ridicule, infantilize, and generally demonize those who have a distrust of vaccines are scarcely better than ignorant, dogmatically-blinded fanatics who burned witches at the stake in centuries past; they just can't get away with literal witch-hunts these days.
Anyway, I'm healthy and in my 20s, have never had the flu and haven't been seriously ill since I caught salmonella second-hand from a family that was afflicted by the tainted Peter Pan peanut butter fiasco a number of years ago. That really really sucked. I make my living online so I have no need to interact with many people, and most of my hobbies are solitary, so I'm not eagerly lining-up to get myself injected with a vaccine that's only 20% effective this year and is liable to make me feel crappy for a few days, in the 1-in-5 chance that I catch a strain actually covered by the vaccine while out exploring desolate BLM lands this flu season.
Common sense indeed!