2020 has been a year without a flu season in the southern hemisphere

Re:2020 has been a year without a flu season in the southern... by jefft255 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:19PM (#24434411)

I, for one, wouldn't support practicing social distancing every year to prevent the flu season. And this always has economic effects as well.

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Re:2020 has been a year without a flu season in the southern... by michaelbuckbee on Thursday September 10, 2020 @01:32PM (#24434588)

Well there's negative economic effects to the flu in any case.

There's a variety of relatively low cost preventable steps that would just help in general if people followed them (may or may not fit your definition of social distancing).

I'm thinking of stuff like

- Contactless payments

- Head nods instead of handshakes for greetings

- More remote work options (where applicable).

- Mask wearing on public transit or by people with lots of personal contact

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