Originally Posted by rickyh_2
Originally Posted by Mbrock
Originally Posted by rickyh_2
Originally Posted by Willyb
[quote=Ben2]Is there any truth to the statement many have heard, that the covid test used last year could not differentiate between the flu and covid and therefore is no longer recommended for use?

In the last 18 months I personally have only seen one patient with influenza. Masks and social distancing in combination with flu vaccines abd pre existing herd immunity to influenza have killed flu season.[/quote


Well, not trying to be disrespectful; but if social distancing and mask have helped eliminate the flu, the same should have worked for covid. Same amount of people were practicing or not practicing these things and the covid stayed and flu disappeared. I find that analogy hard to believe. As for the Flu vaccine, we all that’s a shot in the dark if it works or not pending the strain for that is going around.


I’m not WillyB, but I don’t think comparing Flu and Covid can really be done. Flu and all it’s variants have been around for thousands of years. There is a natural immunity built into the general population and with Covid, it just simply don’t exist. Covid is not a variant of the Flu. It’s a completely different virus and seems to be WAY more infectious. It’s certainly plausible that social distancing and masks cut back on Flu transmission, while a new virus that humans have not been exposed to before 2019 runs rampant.



But still a virus and transmitted the same way. That’s my point. I understand the immunity of the flu; but if we have that much immunity, why the 10s of thousands of cases annually except recently. Y’all are probably right. Stil makes no sense.


it's not 10's of thousands annually. It is 10's of MILLIONS of flu cases annually, most years it runs 35-40 million cases and 40,000-60,000 flu deaths each year, and wearing a mask and washing hands took it to almost zero in 2020? I'm not buying it either.

Last edited by abolt300; 09/07/21 10:19 AM.