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It might not be a deadly virus now but it certainly was in mid 2020. And things mutate. Flu is harmless as well, except for the years when it isn’t. Minimiz
by jleyank 4y ago
It might not be a deadly virus now but it certainly was in mid 2020. And things mutate. Flu is harmless as well, except for the years when it isn’t. Minimizing risk for others is a positive human trait.
- lbeltrame 4y agoFlu is not harmless. Not at all. It is a bad disease when symptomatic (30-40% cases may be asymptomatic). In particular for young children and the elderly. Flu for me was way worse than a SARS-CoV-2 infection (think 40C fever). SARS-CoV-2 was deadly for a specific part of an immuno naive population (60+). The age stratification was known since February 2020 (first Chinese paper on that from the Wuhan data). My country had zero excess deaths in the 0-50 range since the start of the pandemic. EDIT: Anti-SARS-CoV-2 vaccines do not block transmission, certainly not now. And as thus, their protection is primarily for one's own benefit.