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Another thing I got to thinking about...
In my entire life, almost 60 years old now, I can only think of 2 people that I knew that died of influenza. Both were distant relatives, but I'd met them once or twice. I also remember 2 more that were hospitalized due to influenza, and recovered and came home quickly. I've had the flu 3-4 times in my life, as have almost everyone else that I know that is my age. Once I required IVs as it dehydrated me, but I was never admitted. Yet none of us died. Looking back on it, I seem to know maybe 1-2 people per year that get the flu and recover quickly with no lingering effects.
In the past 3 months, 29 people that I know personally have had COVID. Most had mild symptoms like that stuffy head fuzzy feeling Eddie has been talking about. All had fatigue. About a dozen had low fevers for several days. 3 were bed ridden for 2 weeks but never went to the hospital. 4 others were hospitalized for a week to 10 days before coming home. 2 others were hospitalized and died there. 2 have lingering symptoms for over a month.
I've never seen a flu rip through a family or business like this COVID can do.
The only thing in my life that even comes close is a norovirus event at my father's funeral 25 years ago. In that event, we were all touching, hugging, crying, etc... which we don't do now with COVID, yet we still catch it just through the air.
It's highly contagious, spreads mostly through the air from water droplets in people's breath. Wearing a mask helps keep you from unknowingly spreading it to others through your breathing by slowing the velocity of your breath so the water droplets in your breath don't travel as far from your face as it would with no mask.
This is pretty simple stuff to understand folks.
In my entire life, almost 60 years old now, I can only think of 2 people that I knew that died of influenza. Both were distant relatives, but I'd met them once or twice. I also remember 2 more that were hospitalized due to influenza, and recovered and came home quickly. I've had the flu 3-4 times in my life, as have almost everyone else that I know that is my age. Once I required IVs as it dehydrated me, but I was never admitted. Yet none of us died. Looking back on it, I seem to know maybe 1-2 people per year that get the flu and recover quickly with no lingering effects.
In the past 3 months, 29 people that I know personally have had COVID. Most had mild symptoms like that stuffy head fuzzy feeling Eddie has been talking about. All had fatigue. About a dozen had low fevers for several days. 3 were bed ridden for 2 weeks but never went to the hospital. 4 others were hospitalized for a week to 10 days before coming home. 2 others were hospitalized and died there. 2 have lingering symptoms for over a month.
I've never seen a flu rip through a family or business like this COVID can do.
The only thing in my life that even comes close is a norovirus event at my father's funeral 25 years ago. In that event, we were all touching, hugging, crying, etc... which we don't do now with COVID, yet we still catch it just through the air.
It's highly contagious, spreads mostly through the air from water droplets in people's breath. Wearing a mask helps keep you from unknowingly spreading it to others through your breathing by slowing the velocity of your breath so the water droplets in your breath don't travel as far from your face as it would with no mask.
This is pretty simple stuff to understand folks.
