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how long?

• hombre_fatal 6y ago
  A quick google search says it's estimated to have started 6,000 years ago. But this is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_influenza https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_influenza My only point being (which I since added to my original comment) that we certainly never entered a post-pandemic state for influenza given that it's so far a seasonal passenger of the human condition. Look at the Hong Kong influenza outbreak not long ago. I would expect the legacy of covid19 to be more similar to that going forward than some permanent emergency state.
  • war1025 6y ago
    A thing I think is interesting is I can never remember having the actual flu. We got the stomach flu all the time as kids, and have gotten it yearly since having kids, and for most of that time I assumed that's what people meant by the flu. I can't remember ever actually catching influenza.