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My hope is that we're approaching a similar point the Spanish Flu did after this amount of time: Spanish Flu eventually lost its lethality and became symptomati
by yellowapple 5y ago
My hope is that we're approaching a similar point the Spanish Flu did after this amount of time: Spanish Flu eventually lost its lethality and became symptomatically indistinguishable from your run of the mill flu, and hopefully COVID will eventually do the same and be symptomatically indistinguishable from your run of the mill cold. Obviously we ain't there quite yet, but with Omicron being both wider-spreading and more mild, hopefully we'll get there soon.
- AniseAbyss 5y agoIirc the Spanish flue lasted 5 years so we still have some time to go.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoI think the increase in travel sufficiently "stirs the pot" to accelerate this one. Hopefully anyway.
- yellowapple 5y agoStarted February 1918, ended April 1920; after that point it was indistinguishable from seasonal flu in terms of lethality.