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Many people have been masked for the past couple of years. It makes sense that the flu virus spread was impacted along with covid spread. Hopefully people have received their annual flu shot and continue to mask up when in crowds to reduce their likelihood of infection.

Almost like masks did their job when they were mandatory, and now that nobody wears them anymore we're back to square one with other pathogens.

@gol979 Yes, but not perfectly. Kinda like seatbelts work, but not perfectly.

Here's the data on masks. If you've got access to superior data, please post it!

Duke University studied one million school children in thousands of classrooms including mostly masked, partially masked, mostly unmasked. They found masks to be pretty effective:
https://today.duke.edu/2021/06/research-finds-masks-can-prevent-covid-19-transmission-schools

"A large randomized trial led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University has found that wearing a surgical face mask over the mouth and nose is an effective way to reduce the occurence of COVID-19 in community settings.
... The researchers enrolled nearly 350,000 people from 600 villages in rural Bangladesh. ..."
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/09/surgical-masks-covid-19.html

@gol979 True. BUT.

You failed to mention specifically which ones have been pulled, and you confused the explanation of why.

Astrazeneca was pulled for certain age groups ONLY BECAUSE the mRNA vaccines were proven safer. I believe the same thing happened with J&J in certain age groups. In BOTH CASES, the mRNA vaccines were recommended in place of other vaccines.

Look, there's no risk-free path in this life; every choice has risks. And ALL THE DATA says the risks of facing Covid unprotected are FAR FAR higher than the risks of facing Covid after vaccination. If you think you have data that says otherwise, feel free to present it.

Until then I'll continue to maintain that ALL THE DATA says the risks of facing Covid unprotected are FAR FAR higher than the risks of facing Covid after vaccination.

CDC seasonal flu data year over year. Notice anything missing?

Wake up. It was always there. They just lied to you and said that Covid scared it out of town. Y’all got the flu not Covid. Holy crap. Wake the fuck up

I had what i thought was the flu, took a covid test and it came out positive.

Nobody wants peace. Fighting the tripledrmic is off the table.

I thought covid cured the flu! And cancer , heart disease , old age…