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@luckytran@med-mastodon.comUniversal masking and social distancing at the start of the pandemic were so effective that they eliminated a strain of flu, and now annual flu vaccines have been redesigned because that strain no longer needs to be included in the shot. Amazing.
@luckytran SEE it PROVES it WORKS AND HAS WORKED !
JUST THE SELF CENTERED REFUSE to HELP make It WORK
WHY SOME DIED FOR THEIR SELFINESS OR KILLED OTHERS
Now if we can just get more people to get vaccinated.
@luckytran I do miss not getting a cold. And not being recognized by people.
@luckytran I learned today that the flu vaccine has an extra bit for people over 65 that boosts the vaccines effectiveness
Oiselarius (he/him) @luckytran @Oiselarius what a weird coinkidink…it’s like everyone wearing a mask and maintaining a reasonable social distance actually works. Who’d’a thunk it?
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I still wish religious leaders would create an annual two week holiday where the faithful had to stay in their homes or only meet people outside or cover their nose and mouth. When everyone does this stuff at the same time it’s extremely powerful.
@luckytran interesting how it says this is "the first documented case", as if this might happen again. It won't. Covid measures were unique and the past years have not lead to any willingness to improve collective health. These changes in human behavior have not only not sustained, but have actively been fully reverted. Wearing a mask is now seen as a political act rather than a personal health decision. It's absolutely maddening. Right wing politics is hurting everyone's health
@qevlarr yup next thing we gotta do is get rid of right wing politics
@luckytran I didn't get sick AT ALL—not even a little case of the sniffles—for two years straight back when most people were masking. It was amazing. I wish we'd all just mask in public settings all the time.
@The_Tim @luckytran. I used to get a couple bad sinus infections per year. Not once since the pandemic began.
I think some people are still stuck on spontaneous generation rather than germ theory, but if there's no infectious agent in a place, like "inside of your mask and lungs," there's no way to get infected.
@luckytran And still, nobody thinks to do this anymore to try to stop Covid... 
Some of us do, actually
@luckytran Fascinating.
From my view many diseases could be eliminated if people even just stopped "soldiering on" ...
It isn't brave, it's stupid and selfish and ignorant ...
And don't know what strain it was but all of my offspring and theirs have 'had the flu' this year ... including the babies.
Not me, but I'm vaccinated and still wear a mask inside all buildings and on buses ...
@luckytran I hate to say it, but apparently the biosafety level for handling the laboratory stockpile of Influenza B is "you must wear pants and eat outside the lab". One could at least bump that to BSL-3 now, or BSL-4 for good measure so we don't see a lab leak.
https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/about-us/networks/disease-and-laboratory-networks/erlinet-biosafety
"Human influenza viruses are handled and cultured under biosafety level 2 (BSL-2) conditions while highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAI) have to be handled and cultured under BSL-3 conditions"
@luckytran I hope people absorb this piece of information and understand that yes, we really did have chance of suppressing covid. It wasn't inevitable. Masks and all the other precautions are not useless - they never were.
So we could have defeated a flu virus, maybe all flu viruses, at any point in the past few decades. Yet we kept dragging ourselves to school and work and spreading the little bastards around, occasionally killing a grandparent. Sweet.
@KanaMauna @luckytran we, in the U.S., before the COVID pandemic, have been killing more than 40,000 people every year by being careless about spreading airborne diseases.
We should stop doing that, now that we know how easy it is
@ShadSterling @luckytran I’ll fully confess, for most of my life I kept going to work in suboptimal conditions. And my kids catching something at school, well that was just life. The past four years have been an epiphany and I’m surprised how many people refuse to understand.
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Cool, now do COVID
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There's also an xkcd on this very event!
https://xkcd.com/2523/
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If humans were a sane species, we'd have a social-distancing week a couple of times a year in the hope of ridding ourselves of the viruses that prey just on us.
@luckytran didn't that strain mutate into other strains long ago btw.?
@luckytran imagine what we could do if we all continued to mask up
@luckytran but Wilbur, who 'did his own research' still reckons masking has no effect and is a part of the gumments sinister burqaisation project.
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Can you believe I no longer get so many dirty stares.
Sometimes I get a worried look.
@luckytran Great to have eliminated one strain. Apparently we were lucky that there is no non-human reservoir for that virus, because I don’t see mask mandates for goats, cows and geese and cormorants working very well.
“Oh but they’re inconvenient, sometimes uncomfortable & make us look silly!”Sheesh…
@luckytran didn't eliminate COVID though did it? But did destroy economies and livelihoods.