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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by achenatx on Thursday April 29, 2021 @05:55PM (#26987312)
covid might not be more infectious, it might just be less people have any existing partial resistance to sars-cov-2. Each year the flu mutates but it still has overlap with prior variants.

As sars-cov-2 mutates seasonal covid might end up less bad than the seasonal flu. Though there is no way to tell.

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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by dijit on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:31AM (#26990403)
That is likely to be true but doesn’t really mean anything.

Spanish flu killed millions before less deadly strains mutated and became what we now call flu.

I can’t advocate for any measure that kills millions in the short term, _especially_ without data for the long term.

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