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How does ordinary germ theory not explain what happened with flu during the pandemic? The measures people took to reduce the spread of COVID would also reduce
by tzs 2y ago
How does ordinary germ theory not explain what happened with flu during the pandemic?
The measures people took to reduce the spread of COVID would also reduce the spread of flu, and because flu is less infectious and infected people do not spread at for as many days those measures would be even more effective against flu.
If the flu season without COVID would have just been an average flu season instead of some particular infectious strain then it would not be hard for the measures taken for COVID to push the effective R value for the flu that year to under 1, which would mean it would not spread.
- mike_hearn 2y agoThat's the explanation public health departments like but it's inconsistent with the data. Much more likely to be the same phenomenon that caused other variants to disappear as well.