Comment on if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out??

Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Some people do actually need to physically be at work… in fact, it’s how most work is done. Just because some are devs/IT workers and see no need to actually show up to work, that doesn’t mean the rest of the world keeps on turning without maintenance.

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  • themusicman@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re ranting for no reason. “Return to workplace” obviously doesn’t refer to workers who had to be on site the whole time

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    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, it wasn’t obvious to me.

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      • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It should have been

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  • Lmaydev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s not just Devs. It’s essentially any office job.

    Accountants or lawyers don’t need to be in the same building anymore than Devs do.

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• Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We killed off one strain of flu by our less-than-perfect quarantining for COVID.

  We did? Do you have more information on that?

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  • ammonium@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9524051/

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    • Atemu@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That article is interesting and important but it does not show any causal links between lockdowns and the disappearance.

      It is, for example, also possible that it was merely displaced by SARS-CoV2.

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      • Izzgo@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I appreciate your close and literal reading of that study. This was new news to me so I looked a bit further. STATnews and others seem to think it was the various lockdown protocols.

        B/Yamagata viruses haven’t been detected anywhere in the world since late March 2020, when Covid pandemic lockdowns and social distancing appeared to have halted circulation of this family of lineage of flu B.

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      • ammonium@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How would it be displaced by SARS-CoV2? Wouldn’t that require cross immunity?

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• FarFarAway@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s pretty cool! I knew we didn’t really have a flu season, but I didn’t realize we actually killed off a while strain. Not for nothing, I guess.

  You do have a point though, we have an existing vaccine and we are more knowledgeable about the flu in general. Maybe there would be more surviviors than one would anticipate. As long as the scientists didn’t dont get infected and die before they could get the vaccine out.

  When birds catch the bird flu, there can be up to 100% mortality rate. So, I suppose I’m more refering to a catastrophic, civilization altering illness. More akin the what a zombie virus would do, without the added potential of reanimation.

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I prefer Houstonian butt COVID

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