Wow! So if we wash our hands and social distance, we can cure cancer too?

I'm not sure what this has to do with anything but if you socially distance and wear masks then that also reduces the spread of the flu. It should be another light season with the delta variant bringing back restrictions.

Come on, don’t ya know the flu is way down because everyone is wearing a mask and social distancing, but COVID numbers have been up because…no one is wearing a mask and social distancing.

This is probably the most idiotic thing I’ve seen posted on the internet. And that’s saying a lot.

I tried to reply earlier, but I just couldn't figure out what to say back. I was dumbfounded by that post.

Dr. Fauci wrote a paper after a study was conducted by the NIH in the mid-'90s, that stated that masks could not stop the spread of SARS-Covid type viruses. If you remember he stated this at the beginning of the pandemic, and he cited his own work on it as proof. Then something magical happened where paper masks could now stop the spread of a virus that is nearly 100 microns smaller than the filtration capacity of the masks. In the paper he wrote, it was stated that the biggest danger from masks comes from the virus being aerosolized by the mask. The droplets do not pass on the infection through the skin, but the vapor inhaled into the lungs or introduced to the eyes does. That is why over 70% of all covid cases occur to people who always wear masks and are always with people who wear them. Those people prove Fauci's research is accurate.

The reason the flu numbers are down is because of the decisions made by the CDC on how to interpret test results. The most common form of testing that we've used since the onset, can not differentiate between Covid, Flu, or the common cold. It only proves that you have one of a few various types of coronavirus or other viruses, but not necessarily covid. The CDC determined that all positive tests would be treated as a positive for covid. They announced in early August that this form of testing would be outlawed by Dec 31, 2021. The CDC is requiring a new test that can differentiate between covid and the other viruses by that date. That is the reason no one got the flu because all positive tests were registered as covid. Have you ever wondered how some folks test positive while not having any covid symptoms, or they say it felt like a cold? Well, it might have been a cold, or one of the other viruses that could cause the test to show positive.

We might as well all wear tinfoil hats along with the masks, as they are about as scientifically beneficial to stopping the spread as the masks are.

Flu season is in the winter when people were wearing masks and socially distancing. We didn't do much of that over the spring and summer because of vaccination rates lowering transmission. Then the Delta variant hit. So now masks and maybe social distancing are back until we can get ahold of this thing... Just in time for flu season. It's not a very complicated concept. If we socially distance this winter and wear masks there will be less flu.

To borrow a quote from another poster... "It was aliens"....

Thanks, Dr. Urine.

Ever think that maybe there is less flu because ivermectin.