Seems a bit of a mystery to me that masks and social distancing completely eliminated normal seasonal flu deaths but not COVID-19. I see a few possible explanations.
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Was our belief in 50K seasonal flu deaths per year in the United States ever substantiated, or is it just a way to sell vaccinations? All I know for sure is that I've never heard of anyone dying of seasonal flu complications, and I've been around awhile.
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I know people who have died from overdoses, parachute accidents, AIDS, murder, suicide, drowning, drunk driving, and just about everything else you can name. But not one example of regular flu complications. I remain a skeptic.
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It's is a novel virus so there's no immunity out there for it. The masks reduce transmission by stopping people coughing on each other, the masks stop both disease
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That's not a "maybe" but a "almost certainly", as we're fairly certain that R0 is larger for COVID-19 than for influenza. (Screenshot from Wikipedia)pic.twitter.com/0etmpFLv88
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Does it pass your sniff test that masks stop one virus completely and we can't even detect the impact of masks/distancing on this coronavirus enough to convince skeptics they make any difference at all?
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It's not more contagious than the flu. At least according to the contact tracing training I took.pic.twitter.com/bWXSP3Vm5Y
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The number was estimated from higher flu virus prevalence in tested people and a good correlation to actual mortality Over 50% of ALL death certificates are faulty anyhow Some have more than one error on them
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Maybe the mitigation efforts developed for the flu (masks, social distancing, hand washing) work really well for the flu..
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