Wearing a mask has eradicated the Flu! Flu cases are almost nonexistent

spacegnome said:
all i know is post covid if anybody walks up to me sniffing and sneezing without a mask on im filling the room with uppercuts.
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Im kinda nervous though cause I heard not being around germs can actually weaken our immune systems. What will happen once we stop wearing masks, we might get another Flu pandemic on our hands because our bodies haven't been in contact with a flu viruses in over two years to help fight it?
 
I do like having hand sanitiser everywhere, and people staying home while sick.

Id hope masks become a bit more common but don't want it enforced.
 
TidWell said:
Its the new normal brother, we gotta do what we gotta do, it is what it is. gotta make sure some sick foo ain't trying to sneak into the casino or grocery store to spread their viruses.
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Who decides who gets frisked for medication or who is a suspect of concealing their high temperature? How invasive will a frisk or body search need to be to find something as small as Tylenol. Who do you want making that decision, or making similar decisions about whatever additional measures are taken to get a possible flu carrier out of your presence?

What degree of force will be acceptable in keeping somebody who is accused of having the flu away from you? What degree of expertise in both the law and medicine will a person exercising such force need to possess before being assigned to such a post?

What if they're wrong? What if someone has a higher temperature for reasons not related in any way to any virus and force is used upon them and they have a heart attack or hit their head on the ground or something...

I don't know where to draw the line, but these are all things you or policymakers will have to consider as layers of new measures are introduced to keep you away from the flu.
 
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BisexualMMA said:
Who decides who gets frisked for medication or who is a suspect of concealing their high temperature? How invasive will a frisk or body search need to be to find something as small as Tylenol. Who do you want making that decision, or making similar decisions about whatever additional measures are taken to get a possible flu carrier out of your presence?

What degree of force will be acceptable in keeping somebody who is accused of having the flu away from you? What degree of expertise in both the constitution and medicine will a person exercising such force need to possess before being assigned to such a post?

What if they're wrong? What if someone has a higher temperature for reasons not related in any way to any virus and force is used upon them and they have a heart attack or hit their head on the ground or something...

I don't know where to draw the line, but these are all things you or policymakers will have to consider as layers of new measures are introduced to keep you away from the flu.
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If someone sneezes or coughs persistently they should frisk them for tylenols etc and check their temperature. If they tried to sneak into a casino, movie theater, or event with flu or cold or covid they should make it punishable by law, to get it through their heads a lot of people are inconsiderate and will go out to crowded venues while sick touching, coughing and spread germs. We must punish them with a hefty fine and possible jail time just to get the point across and take it serious ya know.

What do you think brother?
 
TidWell said:
If someone sneezes or coughs persistently they should frisk them for tylenols etc and check their temperature. If they tried to sneak into a casino, movie theater, or event with flu or cold or covid they should make it punishable by law, to get it through their heads a lot of people are inconsiderate and will go out to crowded venues while sick touching, coughing and spread germs. We must punish them with a hefty fine and possible jail time just to get the point across and take it serious ya know.

What do you think brother?
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Perhaps.

But we just had a year of riots because too much force was used against people with knives, guns and tasers. How much force is acceptable against someone who a security guard thinks might have a high fever?

Also, this crime of sneaking into something with a cold is not as simple as it seems. Do they have to know they had a cold? How is that proved? And again, what force is acceptable against them to prevent them from entering somewhere if suspected of having a cold or fever and who decides? What if they don't comply and what if the person accusing them of having a fever is wrong?

Jail time for entering a crowded place with a cold... I think you'll probably need more than apparent recklessness while having a possible fever to put someone in jail. Think for a moment about how difficult it is right now to punish someone for intentionally giving somebody else HIV.

We are talking about a cold now, and we aren't even sure if the person knows they have one.

When asked what you want to do to stop the cold or the flu, it's easy to say everything imaginable under the sun because that's how much I care about health, but there are a lot of moving parts in practice and it's best to think about those before automatically putting the pedal to the metal.

Consider how carefully the courts and justice system treat somebody who intentionally infects another person with HIV and now think about what we might be prepared to do to people who could be taking Tylenol for a high fever in the same room as us.
 
This is the first year I have never gotten a cold or the seasonal flu.
 
TidWell said:
Flu cases near historic lows during Covid-19 pandemic

"I generally see two or three influenza patients a week during flu season,” said Dr. Linda Yancey, an infectious disease specialist. “This flu season, I have seen exactly two influenza patients for the entire season.”

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/01/25/flu-cases-near-historic-lows-during-pandemic/
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Yeah, cause they’re being reported as covid cases, I’m willing to bet. That and like most people I know, they just go home and sack out on the couch and get over it.
 
I usually get runny noses, coughs and a cold by this time of the season, so far nothing.

Social distancing, washing hands and the mask is working for me.
 
armbarforhire said:
I usually get runny noses, coughs and a cold by this time of the season, so far nothing.

Social distancing, washing hands and the mask is working for me.
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It shows how dirty and poor hygiene most people had, so many pieces of shits who had colds and flus would still go out to buffets, and movie theaters spreading their germs instead of staying home. Now with mask wearing, distancing and washing hands you see less people getting flu. And most covid cases are asymptomatic or mild thanks to masks reducing viral load according to scientists
 
It would not come as a surprise to me if reported flu cases begin to increase in the near future, wearing masks or not.
 
Hidden_Hand said:
I was only talking to someone the other day about how the flu has just disappeared.

It just goes to show how disgusting we actually were before. Close contact, crowds, touching stuff, not sanitizing, breathing on each other etc.

Is it any wonder every season everyone got the flu? Lol
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Ummm what do you think all that stuff is going to do to peoples immune systems?

Like how kids who grow up sheltered and inside grow up to be sickly.
 
TidWell said:
If someone sneezes or coughs persistently they should frisk them for tylenols etc and check their temperature. If they tried to sneak into a casino, movie theater, or event with flu or cold or covid they should make it punishable by law, to get it through their heads a lot of people are inconsiderate and will go out to crowded venues while sick touching, coughing and spread germs. We must punish them with a hefty fine and possible jail time just to get the point across and take it serious ya know.

What do you think brother?
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Frisking for Tylenols. Awesome.

I sometimes have Hall's Soothers because I like the taste. I'd better stop doing that.
 
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