Yeah. R0 for seasonal flu is like 1.25. You can crush it pretty hard with basic mitigation. Also in Australia, even under normal circumstances, flu drops to low levels over summer. A lot of those 484 cases were brought in via hotel quarantine, just like COVID. Without international travel we could eradicate flu quite quickly.
true, but electoral college advantage and state legislators rigging the voting rules (and now certification shenanigans), were greater factors in betting markets lines than actual polls.
I have a friend that Iāve trained with in the past who taught me a bunch of bjj and other shit he learned in the military when we were roommates and I was about to join a place in my city the spring of COVID. Fuck that shit now though.
Brag: Negative.
Beat: Would have gotten full paid time off for two weeks if I was positive
Variance: Nose still feels weird, respect the people who hate that more tbh
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Sorry for posting non-info but:
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Imagine being the poor guy who got an STD that made his balls swell up right before his wedding, and now everyone in town knows it wasnāt the vaccine.
Sounds like the bride knew if she called off the wedding. If not, then sheās a pretty shitty person and he dodged a bullet.
Iāve been going 4 days a week to my superspreader gym for months now. Iād like to think I keep getting asymptomatic infections and training those memory cells.
It really makes me wonder what the influenza caseload would look like if we tested as much as weāre testing for covid.
Are we always constantly getting little asymptomatic flu infections and fighting them off? That would make a ton of sense in that whenever I get overworked or super stressed about something, I get sick. Like Iām just always keeping the little bugs at bay, but theyāre right there ready to attack.
We miss a ton of flu, but weāre also missing a ton of covid. Probably more flu than covid, but covid is also so much more contagious. I think the real story is, in fact, how much less flu we could have if we just masked up in indoor public spaces during flu season every year.
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Not just missing - but all this weird stuff about is it in the throat or the lungs or w/e.
It just makes me wonder if there are 10 different cold varieties and 3 different flu varieties constantly multiplying somewhere in my respiratory tract, but my immune system is stamping them out like little brush fires before they can become trouble.
At the cellular level, your whole body is a constant battle. Every accessible square inch of you, inside and out, is totally colonized with bacteria, most of which are āfineā but also that youāre constantly fighting back to keep in their place (also, the bacteria are fighting for their own place, which can be a good thing, as good bacteria can keep their place over pathogens). You are being bombarded by airborne viruses and constantly replanting bacteria from where they do belong, like your hands, to where they donāt, like your mouth. Rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses, and others are all over the place all the time, and most of the time you donāt notice. If you do notice, than itās usually āa cold,ā which can be attributed to multiple different viruses, including coronoaviruses. As much as pathogens function as a sort of Deus Ex Machina at the end of War of the Worlds, itās a totally plausible ending, also.
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I read quite early in the pandemic that 14% of flu infections are asymptomatic, which I hadnāt realised.
Factoid: There are more bacterial cells in your body than human cells. (Bacteria are on the order of 100 times smaller than your cells).
is asymptomatic flu a thing? i feel like i have never heard of it being a common occurrence.
Iām sure it is. We just donāt test people for flu on the regular.
I frequently didnāt test people who were symptomatic because it didnāt change anything.
Yeah, and this is true for a lot of covid cases that donāt need to go to the hospital, too (for better or for worse, obv.).
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I swab every covid patient though since May 2020 or thereabouts? I never would recommend Tamiflu to people so I just said yeah you have flu to the healthy patients.
I do rapid swabs on everyone nowadays too unless itās a test for for some obnoxious reason. We have enough. Itās a Public Health Service at this point.
Plenty are getting missed though too.
Yeah, Iām not talking about people who come to see you. Iām talking about people who basically know they have covid but arenāt hit hard and just do their thing, whether thatās staying home like they should or hitting the bars like in Florida. Test result doesnāt change their attitude either way.
Donāt you dare lie to me Nicki.