Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by freewilly1040 on Monday August 23, 2021 @12:43PM
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Do any downvoters care to actually explain their reasoning? Wikipedia puts flu deaths during the last pre-pandemic season at 60K in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statis...
Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
by spookthesunset on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:33PM
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I mean there is no reasoning. We never did this crap for other illness. It’s as if people woke up on March 2020 and discovered “holy crap people die of illness!!”
Orlando is having a water shortage due to lack of liquid oxygen to treat water, because it is being diverted to COVID patients. That does not typically happen during flu season.
Immune suppressed individuals and the people who interact with them I would assume are, as a population, used to taking care of themselves in the face of the common flu and other things which present danger to them.
The ease at which COVID, especially delta, spreads basically guarantees immune suppressed individuals will come into contact with it w/o everyone taking precautions.
You don't have to put your life on hold forever. Wear a mask, be vaccinated, and encourage others in your life to do the same. Live your life within the bounds that helps others survive this. We're in this together.
If your immune system is already compromised, there's TONS of other stuff just as scary as COVID. The risk of the flu to these people in past years was just as high, but this argument wasn't used because the entire world can't put life on hold forever.