TheModerateTankie [any]

Team Monsanto's Lead Junior Red Dawn war re-enactor/co-ordinator for Anniston, Alabama

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  • there is usually a wave every summer. The only time its been low in the past few years has been is in the spring, and currently this fall is a low point which is unusual. its dependant on how many people have gotten sick and/or vaccinated in previous months, and if there are random mutations of new covid strains appearing.



  • The flu is deadly to elderly and people with health conditions so they should definitely get a flu shot.

    Regular people should get it too, but some countries think it's no big deal for healthy younger people to get it for some reason so they don't encourage flu shots. It's traditionally been tricky to predict which strain of flu will circulate in different areas so it's effectiveness in pre-covid years could be spotty.

    But after covid it's become very clear that serious post-viral complications aren't limited to covid, and we should have always been doing more to stop the spread of flu. On average they estimate that people get the flu every 3-5 years, but the amount of people who don't know the difference between a cold and a flu is quite large. Covid is more like 1-3 times a year.

    I've never been tested for the flu in my life but I'm certain I've had it and it was awful every time, and some of the symptoms people report after getting covid I've had for years, and it was likely the result of a flu. But previously I always thought "sometimes bodies just do that, nothing we can do".