I've seen a couple of blurbs on India but haven't researched it much. I did find it curious why it took a over a year for the covid to really take off in country with over a billion people with most living in such horrible conditions that most Americans can hardly imagine.
I am no expert but just my redneck guessing is having a lot of people working remotely, schools being more remote, and people taking more notice on hand washing and being away from people was a big reason flu was down.
I would think this would be common sense by now, but... I guess not. Hand washing, mask wearing, social distancing, all the different closures: movie theaters, work from home, schools, etc. Decreased travel. The list goes on and on.... The flu is not as communicable as covid. So all those measures for covid worked really well on the flu.
But I thought it was all of the thoughtless anti vaxxer people that didn't wear masks, went to motorcycle rallies, ballgames, holiday parties, spring breakers, etc... that were responsible for spread of the covid all across the country and ultimately around the world. Maybe they were just careful enough to not spread the flu. Guess we caught a lucky break with that one.
The global folks don't need to justify. Just create fear.
I hope your kidding....the size of the needle alone, makes this impossible.
Too bad everyone isn't as fired up over child trafficking, or the molesting rings in this country. There's something to worry about.Good for you! I am 63. My College roommate was in ICU for 13 days. A friends wife died from Covid. She was 68. Another college friend’s wife now has heart issues secondary to Covid. Either you don’t have that big of a circle of acquaintances or you haven’t looked very far. This is NOT just another virus. Now you can choose to not get the vaccine and I will support your right to do so, but if you claim this thing is nothing to worry about, then you aren’t looking hard enough and you don’t know the facts.
tell me this: if this thing killed 5% of our kids instead of older people would you still scoff?
And from a former skeptic: uncle Ted:
Ted Nugent reacts after testing positive for COVID: ‘Never been so sick in my life’
The singer in the past has said the coronavirus is “not a real pandemic,” calling it a “leftist scam to destroy” then-President Donald Trump.news.yahoo.com
It’s a real pain; my wife threw the frying pan at me and for once I saw it coming, cleanly ducked it and WHACK- right in the fricken shoulder, I just can’t win
Whenever I am in the duck blind now, I just get pelted by steel shot.
When was the last time we had 500K during a flu season? You are only missing the point by a full order of magnitude.
Meh at those numbers. It’s not black and white. And still, only 6% died from covid and 94% had average of 2.6 of comorbidities. So yea, America is fat and unhealthy and that’s the problem.
Busy lifestyles and free-loading is what causes the fat and unhealthy problem. Only a fool thinks it's OK and normal to work 60 - 70 hours a week and the only true 24/7 industry is emergency response and utility (because of emergency response requirements).
When was the last time we pcr tested EVERY hospital patient, EVERY death, had MASSIVE Drive In Testing, encouraged EVERYONE and their dog to get tested for the FLU with or WITHOUT SYMPTOMS? I'd say those numbers would also increase greatly if that was done. It isn't that difficult to manipulate numbers. PCR tests are turned up or down depending on the "level" of disease the tester want to detect.
