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> My partner went to an all-day get together with our mutual friends, and I stayed home in bed, too ill to go. So your partner did not quarantine? Avoid non-es

> My partner went to an all-day get together with our mutual friends, and I stayed home in bed, too ill to go. So your partner did not quarantine? Avoid non-essential trips? Wear a mask? I don't think you'd disagree that our COVID precautions at _this_ point are incongruous with the past, but highlighting it for others reading.

jlokier 5y ago
Covid isn't flu. It doesn't spread, behave, or affect people like flu. It's not a type of flu. There are some similarities and many differences. Do we really have to keep pointing it out? I don't think current precautions are incongruous with the past. Because they are significantly different situations. (Edit: Removed "inappropriately" from "incongruous", as it was intended to clarify but it proved unhelpful. Keeping this note because it gives context to the reply.)
- darkerside 5y ago
  I didn't say "inappropriately". And I'm responding to your flu comparison.
  - jlokier 5y ago
    I didn't compare flu with Covid. I responded about the experience described as "worst bouts of flu" to give perspective to that experience by itself. Many people have never had a flu that lasted like that. Hearing that it happens is interesting. In particular, someone thinks it's just a few days off work, and I know some people in the US don't have enough permitted sick days to be sick for a month. I think comparing two situations and calling the different responses to them "incongruous" implies the comparison is intended to be about something you think is appropriate. (And I think it's an inappropriate comparison, because Covid and flu are sufficiently different.) Otherwise the comparison is pointless. Perhaps I should have written "appropriately incongruous" instead of "inappropriately", though; the multiple negatives seem to get confusing around that sort of language, especially across continents.

jlokier 5y ago

Covid isn't flu. It doesn't spread, behave, or affect people like flu. It's not a type of flu. There are some similarities and many differences. Do we really have to keep pointing it out? I don't think current precautions are incongruous with the past. Because they are significantly different situations. (Edit: Removed "inappropriately" from "incongruous", as it was intended to clarify but it proved unhelpful. Keeping this note because it gives context to the reply.)

darkerside 5y ago
I didn't say "inappropriately". And I'm responding to your flu comparison.
- jlokier 5y ago
  I didn't compare flu with Covid. I responded about the experience described as "worst bouts of flu" to give perspective to that experience by itself. Many people have never had a flu that lasted like that. Hearing that it happens is interesting. In particular, someone thinks it's just a few days off work, and I know some people in the US don't have enough permitted sick days to be sick for a month. I think comparing two situations and calling the different responses to them "incongruous" implies the comparison is intended to be about something you think is appropriate. (And I think it's an inappropriate comparison, because Covid and flu are sufficiently different.) Otherwise the comparison is pointless. Perhaps I should have written "appropriately incongruous" instead of "inappropriately", though; the multiple negatives seem to get confusing around that sort of language, especially across continents.