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> Why does everyone bring up the flu when talking about covid? Because the next step for covid is to settle into endemic status. Influenza is instructive beca
by rootusrootus 5y ago
> Why does everyone bring up the flu when talking about covid?
Because the next step for covid is to settle into endemic status. Influenza is instructive because it serves as an indicator of the level of risk society is willing to tolerate from a virus.
- iammisc 5y agoThe flu regularly (like every few hundred years or so, I think) mutates into a strain that kills 10x as many as other strains. And our level of risk has basically always been... nothing. We don't do anything special for flu, at least not in general society.