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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 ha
by 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 agoI didn't say "inappropriately". And I'm responding to your flu comparison.
- jlokier 5y agoI 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.