Welcome Back Flu

After a hiatus of 2 years flu is making a come back.

"Hospital admissions for flu overtake those for covid for first time since pandemic began" Sly News - UK

Just in time for the annual "the nhs is overrun". Maybe we wont get "stay home, save the nhs" this year?

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ElwoodBlues · M

@gol979

"masks work"

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 · 41-45, M

@ElwoodBlues you keep wearing your spit guard. No amount of truth is going to change your mind. Copying and pasting paid for science justifies your strange behaviour and a waste of my time and energy. Have a lovely xmas

ElwoodBlues · M

@gol979 DUUUDE!!! You have presented ZERO truth, LOL!!!

windinhishair · 61-69, M

@gol979 The major vaccines have PROVEN to be safe and effective. People die from drinking water or having a reaction to food, but that doesn't mean that it is unsafe to drink water and eat food, and that you should refrain from doing both. Effective means having a measurable positive impact. When being vaccinated brings your risk of dying of covid or developing long covid down by a factor of at least 5, with negligible side effects, that is the definition of effective. Getting multiple vaccinations for a rapidly evolving coronavirus provides long-term safe and effective protection. Billions of injections in countries around the world prove that it works and has saved many millions of lives.