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I was just talking to a stranger about this yesterday, COVID has suppressed flu cases in the US significantly. Since we live in a state with a soft lockdown COV
by yardie 6y ago
I was just talking to a stranger about this yesterday, COVID has suppressed flu cases in the US significantly. Since we live in a state with a soft lockdown COVID policy, Florida, our theory is it has a lot to do with masks, sanitizers, increased public/commercial cleaning, and people staying the fuck home if they have mild flu-like symptoms.
And that last bit is important because I knew far too many people dragging themselves into work with a runny nose and fever and basically spreading illnesses to anyone they come in contact with.
After the vaccine has reached herd immunity levels I hope there are real lessons learned about containing highly contagious diseases.
- ghaff 6y agoThe sanitizers and cleaning part certainly didn't hurt. And people continue to go through the motions but it seems increasingly the view that it really didn't matter much, especially to the point where people were sanitizing all their grocery purchases or leaving their Amazon deliveries in the garage for 3 days. I was at an event just over a year ago where we weren't handshaking and surfaces were being wiped down but otherwise we were taking zero precautions which was pretty much the norm at the time. So, basically, we weren't taking any meaningful precautions.