It missed us by 9 days

I think that you may be mistaken on solar flares and solar storms not affecting our bodies. I had started noting that since the sun began its more active phase that people seem to be getting physical depressions even people who are not prone to them in kind of a cyclical way that seems to coincide when the Aurora is brighter.

Now I am not a neurologist or any kind of scientist, these personal observations. But I have a feeling that electromagnetic storms do affect our body's electric chemical processes in ways that have not yet been documented or proven. It's just casual observation for now, but I really hope that there's some study that's being conducted that compares neurological activity in study groups with current solar cycles and activities.