Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Some light reading for you...
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...tm_term=022420
https://www.who.int/docs/default-sou...nal-report.pdf
462 people around the world died of COVID-19 the week of 23-29 February.
That same week, 2000 Americans died of influenza.
It isn't a pure apples-to-apples comparison; flu spreads faster than COVID even though COVID has a slightly higher R0 number, those infected with flu but not yet symptomatic are major spreaders of flu while that has not yet been proven for COVID, there are antivirals and a vaccine for influenza that there aren't for COVID, and unlike influenza children do not seem to experience serious/severe disease from COVID.
Wash your hands regularly and if you're sick (especially feverish!), stay home.
All true but we tend to gloss over flu because flu is "opt in only".
You opt in by not getting the flu shot. So people who want to worry (or are at risk of serious complications) get the shot and then put it out of their mind.
With wuflu, that's not an option just yet. My elderly parents need the flu shot and get it religiously, but I'm staying away from them for a while since I fly mostly on the west coast.