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re: How can we have an alarming Flu rate already this year when last two years
Posted on 11/2/22 at 7:03 pm to DoUrden
Posted on 11/2/22 at 7:03 pm to DoUrden
Let's start from the mainstream consensus: that COVID was more contagious than the flu. Note that I'm not referencing symptoms or severity at all. Just how contagious.
Society distanced from one another, wore masks, and washed their hands vastly more frequently than they did before 2020 and vastly more frequently than they are today. Whether you believe that was good policy or not is irrelevant; that it occurred is objective fact.
It would logically follow that precautions taken to combat a more contagious virus would be even more effective at preventing a less contagious virus. But, once those precautions ended, said less contagious virus would return to normal levels.
Society distanced from one another, wore masks, and washed their hands vastly more frequently than they did before 2020 and vastly more frequently than they are today. Whether you believe that was good policy or not is irrelevant; that it occurred is objective fact.
It would logically follow that precautions taken to combat a more contagious virus would be even more effective at preventing a less contagious virus. But, once those precautions ended, said less contagious virus would return to normal levels.
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Posted on 11/2/22 at 7:14 pm to Joshjrn
quote:
Let's start from the mainstream consensus: that COVID was more contagious than the flu. Note that I'm not referencing symptoms or severity at all. Just how contagious.
Society distanced from one another, wore masks, and washed their hands vastly more frequently than they did before 2020 and vastly more frequently than they are today. Whether you believe that was good policy or not is irrelevant; that it occurred is objective fact.
It would logically follow that precautions taken to combat a more contagious virus would be even more effective at preventing a less contagious virus. But, once those precautions ended, said less contagious virus would return to normal levels.
So why isn't the more contagious pathogen going gangbusters?
Posted on 11/2/22 at 9:02 pm to Joshjrn
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Society distanced from one another, wore masks, and washed their hands vastly more frequently than they did before 2020 and vastly more frequently than they are today. Whether you believe that was good policy or not is irrelevant; that it occurred is objective fact.
Where you lost me is your premise that one's personal belief as to the efficacy of socially distancing, masking, and washing hands like someone with obsessive compulsive disorder to "slow the spread" of COVID is irrelevant to whether those precautions objectively achieved their intended goal of "slowing the spread"--especially insofar as you are presupposing that those same measures would be more effective at preventing the flu than they would against COVID.
This post was edited on 11/2/22 at 9:04 pm
Posted on 11/2/22 at 11:38 pm to Joshjrn
quote:
Let's start from the mainstream consensus: that COVID was more contagious than the flu. Note that I'm not referencing symptoms or severity at all. Just how contagious.
Society distanced from one another, wore masks, and washed their hands vastly more frequently than they did before 2020 and vastly more frequently than they are today. Whether you believe that was good policy or not is irrelevant; that it occurred is objective fact.
It would logically follow that precautions taken to combat a more contagious virus would be even more effective at preventing a less contagious virus. But, once those precautions ended, said less contagious virus would return to normal levels.
Naaa, I say we stick with the going theory that COVID was fake news and just make believe from the global elites
Posted on 11/3/22 at 7:07 am to Joshjrn
quote:
Let's start from the mainstream consensus: that COVID was more contagious than the flu. Note that I'm not referencing symptoms or severity at all. Just how contagious.
Society distanced from one another, wore masks, and washed their hands vastly more frequently than they did before 2020 and vastly more frequently than they are today. Whether you believe that was good policy or not is irrelevant; that it occurred is objective fact.
It would logically follow that precautions taken to combat a more contagious virus would be even more effective at preventing a less contagious virus. But, once those precautions ended, said less contagious virus would return to normal levels.
Get out of here with your logic and common sense dude!
Posted on 11/3/22 at 1:31 pm to Joshjrn
quote:On top of the fact that flu is randomly pernicious depending on the year. Case in point - one reason Sweden had a lot of early covid senior deaths was because, for whatever reason, they're 2019 flu season was quite mild, and thus didn't cull the weakest seniors like normal. However, in Denmark, it was the opposite.
It would logically follow that precautions taken to combat a more contagious virus would be even more effective at preventing a less contagious virus. But, once those precautions ended, said less contagious virus would return to normal levels.
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