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Not direct experiences but the two news stories from my area are two very different ones.

 

1. A woman wouldn't mask up so the police were called and she was escorted out by the police (for not leaving when the store asked her to leave if she didn't put on a mask).

 

2. A man wouldn't mask up and was shamed by a bunch of customers. The store didn't make him mask up and eventually let him leave with free groceries.

 

The twist is 1 was a black woman at a Walmart in a rural area and 2 was a white man at a Kroger in a generally liberal suburban area.

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This is the damndest thing....  Trump supporters making fun of Biden's mental status.    Seriously.  

MERS killed 866 people worldwide. Again, basic math.   Btw, in an entire year, the flu kills 3,500 - 15,500 in the US. They suspect some cases aren't identified and so they estimate up to 61

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I still keep being so happy to see people's faces that I forget to be mad.  I wear a mask all the time, it's not like I think it's okay.  But I've really gotten tired of talking to people only on Zoom.

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If we are talking about dumb people... A while back some Madison coffee shop advertised that they were a "mask free zone" and caught social media's attention, espeially after suing the city or wherever for mask laws.

 

Landlord decided that it's nowhere near worth having their lease  ?

 

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I'm curious what's the deal with our flu numbers this season. Could just peak later, but it's not usually this flat to start at least from this selection of years. Covid restrictions not allowing the less virulent flu to spread?

 

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21 minutes ago, Titans279 said:

I'm curious what's the deal with our flu numbers this season. Could just peak later, but it's not usually this flat to start at least from this selection of years. Covid restrictions not allowing the less virulent flu to spread?

 

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It is just math. The flu R-factor is much lower than Covid, so the level of masking/social distancing we are doing is pretty much keeping the flu under control.

 

Sadly, this is still insufficient to prevent wild-fire like spread of the much more transmissive Covid.

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3 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

You are curious? It’s obvious...
 

Social distancing, wearing masks, and hand washing do wonders for fighting the spread of the flu, too...

 

Seems most likely to me.

 

It's just fascinating how what we're doing can demolish the flu but still results in uncontrolled spread and 350k deaths in a year for covid. The last ten years of flu deaths in the US is estimated to be 359,000. We really don't do much to control flu either. Crazy.

 

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47 minutes ago, Titans279 said:

 

Seems most likely to me.

 

It's just fascinating how what we're doing can demolish the flu but still results in uncontrolled spread and 350k deaths in a year for covid. The last ten years of flu deaths in the US is estimated to be 359,000. We really don't do much to control flu either. Crazy.

People just take the flu for granted. For most of us it is a nuisance. I expect most of the deaths are from seniors (similar to COVID) and people just see that as the norm.

 

The hidden fact in these numbers is that, for all of those flu deaths over the years, there was only the most minimal level of social distancing going on. People routinely go to work or school with the flu. And sure, millions of idiots refuse to take COVID seriously, but even figuring that into the equation, the flu has never been handled with such serious countermeasures as we are taking.
 

Imagine how many more deaths there would be if all of us were treating it as “just the flu”.

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