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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by audessuscest on Friday April 30, 2021 @02:06AM (#26990281)
No mask, public transports, restaurant, schools open, etc

doesn't matter if even 20% of the population (which is a very high estimate) use some of these measures. You can't explain that the evolution is exactly the same as a Norway...

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Re:Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic by ceejayoz on Friday April 30, 2021 @08:39AM (#26992626)
You can, though.

If you get a disease's R0 below one, it goes away.

Enough people changed their behavior in both countries to make flu go away, because it no longer spread quickly enough to sustain itself.

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