COVID protections eliminated a strain of flu

It could have for all we know, no joke. But there is no substantiated claim to back any of these ASSumptions.

 

So you didn't notice all the scientific substantiation?

 

Do you have something refuting my far more recent data?

 

In the context of a worldwide pandemic, the partial protection provided by surgical masks helped prevent spread of the virus. The material in surgical masks is quite capable of filtering out small particles like viruses in respiratory aerosols. When you wear a surgical mask it becomes damp because respiratory aerosols are being trapped. Surgical masks provide partial protection by reducing the amount of virus that is released by the wearer which reduces the amount in the surrounding air.

A 2021 study found that surgical masks reduce viral shedding via aerosols from infected people by 48% to 77%. Another study got the result that surgical masks reduced shedding by 50%. All of this supports that surgical masks provide partial protection by reducing the chances of transmission. Other interventions like social distancing further reduced the chance of getting the virus.

Of course N95 masks are better than surgical masks in terms of protection.

So again,

 

Nope. Just assertion

 

Ok, you didn't notice it then.

 

As far as evidence goes there have been quite a few epidemiological studies related to Non-Pharmacologic Interventions taken during the Pandemic. Most studies indicate that a combination of actions were most effective and reducing the spread of covid-19 eg. social distancing + masks + isolating those infected + closure of workplaces and so on.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10475751/

The distance the virus particles can travel through air depends of the velocity at which they are expelled from the body and if there are any barriers to slow down the velocity.

The size of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle is 60 to 140 nm. The virus hitches a ride on aerosol droplets, different masks have different capacities to block aerosols to varying degrees.

How is it spread — the SARS-CoV-2 virus is a respiratory virus, therefore spread via transmitted when an infected coughs, sneezes, or talks. It can also be transmitted by picking up the virus from a surface and touching the mouth or eyes, though much less likely.

The virus that causes covid-19 is still around and still mutating.

 

Either did you or you would point it out. When you find it let me know

 

Either did you or you would point it out. When you find it let me know

first off I wasn’t talking about the disease COVID, we are discuss a version of the flu that some on here seem to believe was eradicated because of the COVID precautions. However there is no evidence to support this being the disease was already declining prior to COVID which would suggest something other than the COVID regulations were already pushing its inevitable extinction.

Unfortunately COVID is living and succeeding proof the precautions taken were not enough to eradicate a disease and that’s the facts. To assume one that was already on the path to extinction before COVID was due to COVID precautions is as presumptive as me me claiming it global warming that killed it, or me claiming that the specific flu strain suddenly became allergic to soap. It’s asinine to make claims like that with no backup.

 

Sorry for misunderstanding you, you weren’t clear.

Of course, it’s extremely difficult to eradicate a virus that is rapidly mutating and is highly contagious. The point of all the precautions was to slow down the spread. It was obvious in the Uk that when businesses were closed and the lock-downs were initiated the number of infections directly decreased which stopped the NHS from being totally overwhelmed.

I believe there was evidence to support that covid precautions helped eradicate a version of the flu. Can you explain why the incidence of all flus world-wide went down during the covid pandemic? They did. It was in the news quite a bit. It was either due to social distancing, masks, or lock-downs etc. Why are you so emphatically against other diseases diminishing when everybody is protecting themselves from getting infected from covid. It makes sense. How many other non-pandemic years has the incidence of flues decreased so dramatically. Zero. So what contributed to the radical decrease in flu cases? It seems quite obvious.

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There are quite a few strains of the flu virus all over the world during the flu season and the number of cases of the flu decreased dramatically during the pandemic. It would seem the suspicion that the one particular flu disappeared due to pandemic interventions is likely true after reviewing what happened to flu cases during the pandemic.