Originally Posted by
Taksin
This view has become widespread but I don't think it's true.
Firstly, all the evidence (or scientific research, it's truer to say) shows that lockdowns have made no discernible difference to the spread. So what doesn't stop Covid, doesn't stop flu.
Secondly, covid has spread widely, so all the hand washing etc hasn't stopped that.
The more classical explanation (if we avoid accusing them of doctoring the numbers) is that a new virus chases out the old ones. It supplants them in evolutionary terms. That's what happens with the variants too - soon it will all be omicron until the next one comes along.
You could be right Taskin, although, and perhaps I'm wrong in this and I'm happy to be corrected, but I always believed that the spread of common flu was in a large part due to particles spread through the cold like symptoms of it, rather than particles put into the air from the respiratory system as part of regular breathing, which is why I believed washing hands and covering faces, more frequently and more people carrying tissues etc would significantly lessen the spread.
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