[Zeke]

This is not a PARF subject. I'm going to alert the mods and if this goes PARF, I'm asking it to go poof. That having been said, here's my question:

But first you should know that in '20, '21' and '22 I got a vaccine and was told it was for COVID. I did not get any other shots and I was not advised to get any other shots WRT influenza. This is what the CDC says:
Influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses. COVID-19 is caused by infection with a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) first identified in 2019. Flu is caused by infection with a flu virus (influenza viruses).
As I said, no mention of a "flu" shot for 3 consecutive years. So last Wednesday I'm in a CVS picking up a prescription and I ask about shots. I specifically asked about a new vaccine that I had heard about being available in early October (this year).

"Oh, we've had that since August." Should have been my first clue. So, for 3 years I have been getting a vaccine, whatever the vaccine du jour is. This seems like a trend to me. So I assume I'm getting a shot for whatever COVID is out and about this year.

That is not what happened.

What happened was I got a "flu" shot that I hadn't had since 2018 and it made me sick. Sick enough to know that I don't want to be sick at any cost. However, I'm realizing I have had 3 years of COVID shots, boosters, upgraded, whatever — no flu shots and now I need (if I choose) to go and get yet another shot. the shot I thought I was getting in the first place.

Somehow I feel duped. When I think I've been duped I go ballistic. It's semantics, but I want to know where this shot I got came from, out of nowhere while I'm assuming I'm getting what I've been getting for 3 years running. As I said, it has been a trend, not a change.

CVS makes a sihtloead of money billing Medicare for people like me and they hussle me to get this and get that to make money. It's way too obvious. Meanwhile, I'm interested in not going to the hospital, or being down a long time, or losing my smell and taste like Shaun.

Far from a question so far. What I want to know is how you would handle CVS when they deflected my intended question, a question that would have been more than obvious in meaning for the last 3 years. You might have had to be there to sense what I sensed that they deceived me.