I got the Covid

[the old grind]

.... Apparently intending for it to be interpreted as current information.

Nah, no date and old news is as good as fake news.

Good catch there, and I'm sure flu deaths have caught up with Covid deaths by now.

btw, what's so bad bout driving drunk if everybody is going to die someday anyway? (similar logic)

 

[rswyan]

Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu | Johns Hopkins Medicine

 

[Hay Dude]

Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu | Johns Hopkins Medicine

Why no mask wearing in the past during flu seasons? The flu is obviously deadly, spread in same way, and has no real cure. The flu vaccine will be less effective than the corona vaccine. I hear flu vaccine ~70% effective and Corona vaccine ~95% effective.
If Corona necessitated mask wearing (and it should), one would think we will be in masks for flu seasons from here on out, too.

 

[bigtiller]

Why no mask wearing in the past during flu seasons? The flu is obviously deadly, spread in same way, and has no real cure. The flu vaccine will be less effective than the corona vaccine. I hear flu vaccine ~70% effective and Corona vaccine ~95% effective.
If Corona necessitated mask wearing (and it should), one would think we will be in masks for flu seasons from here on out, too.

You're right, that's a good idea.

 

[ultrarunner]

Some do and then again many I work with wore masks on the job pre Covid.

Remember traveling as a child and in the same plane with a tour group from Japan and first time I saw masks in public... I asked stewardess if they are all sick and she no... just careful.

I found wearing a mask doing yard work meant I could skip allergy meds but often generated questions now no one asks.

 

[JethroB]

Coronavirus Disease 2019 vs. the Flu | Johns Hopkins Medicine

From the last paragraph of the article linked above:

Doctors and scientists are working to estimate the mortality rate of COVID-19, but at present, it is thought to be substantially higher (possibly 10 times or more) than that of most strains of the flu.

 

[rswyan]

Why no mask wearing in the past during flu seasons?

I suspect there are a number of reasons or things that factor into it.

It certainly isn't because wearing a mask was (is) a bad idea though.

The flu is obviously deadly, spread in same way, and has no real cure. The flu vaccine will be less effective than the corona vaccine. I hear flu vaccine ~70% effective and Corona vaccine ~95% effective.

Flu certainly can be deadly.

If Corona necessitated mask wearing (and it should), one would think we will be in masks for flu seasons from here on out, too.

I'd look for the subject of "Public Health" to get a serious revisitation in the coming days, months, and years.

Probably long overdue.

 

[Hay Dude]

I suspect there are a number of reasons or things that factor into it.

It certainly isn't because wearing a mask was (is) a bad idea though.



Flu certainly can be deadly.



I'd look for the subject of "Public Health" to get a serious revisitation in the coming days, months, and years.

Probably long overdue.

I think we are going to be in masks heretofore. Might even be fines for not wearing them.
Although there is the American mentality of not learning from past mistakes.....

 

[rswyan]

Some do and then again many I work with wore masks on the job pre Covid.

Remember traveling as a child and in the same plane with a tour group from Japan and first time I saw masks in public... I asked stewardess if they are all sick and she no... just careful.

I found wearing a mask doing yard work meant I could skip allergy meds but often generated questions now no one asks.

As child, I had hay fever pretty bad every year ... a couple of relatives had it even worse ... to the point of seeing an allergy specialist and being medicated for it.

As an adult, I've largely outgrown it ... go figure ... :confused3:

Seems like I can still catch a few days every year though, where I get to sneezing pretty good.

 

[MossRoad]

He sent it out today!
Apparently intending for it to be interpreted as current information.

I sent it out today to illustrate how false the statement is that flu kills just as many. It was false in May and now it's 10X false in December.

Last year about 34,000 people died of flu in the U.S.
Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 218–219 influenza season | CDC

This year, 329,000+ died of COVID in the U.S.
CDC COVID Data Tracker