As Damon Runyon wrote, paraphrasing a line from Ecclesiastes (Kohelet): “The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”
Flu vaccines and vaccines in general are not brand new. This one is made pretty much the same way as vaccines have been made for a long time. Some of the adjuvants (agents that will stimulate the immune system are newer, but none are brand new.
Experience over the last 40 years has shown that it’s about ONE MILLION TIMES as dangerous to get the flu as to get the flu vaccine.
No one is arguing that there is no danger, there is a slight danger, and one infinitesimally slighter than actually getting the flu.
So, your choice really is: one in a million chance of getting a bad reaction to the vaccine, or a mortality rate of one in a thousand (for normal flu) through one in 33 (for the most virulent of the H1N1 that has been recorded to date).
One is about 1000 times more likely to die of the flu, then to get seriously ill or die from the flu vaccines.
How would you bet with those odds?