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Originally Posted by Castle2.0
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Sorry mate, I have to "listen to the health experts"
So you're saying we SHOULDN'T use the same lockdown measures because the two are VERY different?
On similarity v differences of Flu and Covid see: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm
Pretty darn similar.
How is COVID containable and flu is not? Was H1N1 containable? If so, why haven't we contained it? If it isn't, why is COVID any different? |
Flu epidemics reoccur every year because of the the way the virus is built and how it interacts with the human immune system. influenza's like best asset is its extremely fast ability to change (mutate) and that's why it's not containable.
Covid's best asset is its agility to live outside of the body and through some wide temp ranges. Its like the cocroach of virus's but, it put all its stats into Stamina, and not its ability to mutate, so if we can reduce the spread, so long that we can become immune to it or capture it in pockets where people are highly immune to it and it dies, without an excess # of people dying.
We win.
But we're at containing it at this point,
without a MASSIVE number of people dying, because we lost control around feb/march and any hope of there just being 50-60k deaths, which would have been best case scenario IMO.
Edit: btw I totally do wish education could be excellent and free everywhere hehe and I do hope we can reduce flu deaths by trying to support the science as best as I can and by donating and volunteering! But that's not enforced and I dont think we should enforce that!