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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 7:14 pm to Joshjrn
Posted on 11/2/22 at 7:14 pm to Joshjrn
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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?
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Posted on 11/2/22 at 7:27 pm to tterrific
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So why isn't the more contagious pathogen going gangbusters?
If I'm throwing a dart, because it continued making the rounds for two years, prompting immunization responses, mutating, prompting more immunization responses, etc, etc. So infection rates became more generalized. But if the flu did in fact get heavily suppressed for two years, when it showed back up, it would make sense for it to show up with a vengeance.
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