We killed off one strain of flu by our less-than-perfect quarantining for COVID.
We did? Do you have more information on that?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
We killed off one strain of flu by our less-than-perfect quarantining for COVID. If we mask up for Texas Moo Flu, we’d stop spreading COVID around so much and might slow down its mutation too. At least with flu we know how it’s transmitted, and have related vaccines to tweak. Maybe we’ll be able to call off the Return To Workplace bullshit, too.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
ammonium@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Atemu@lemmy.ml 7 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.
Izzgo@kbin.social 7 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.
ammonium@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How would it be displaced by SARS-CoV2? Wouldn’t that require cross immunity?
FarFarAway@startrek.website 7 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.
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I prefer Houstonian butt COVID
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 7 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.
themusicman@lemmy.world 7 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
0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Well, it wasn’t obvious to me.
Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 months ago
It should have been
Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 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.