Gonna be that guy again. The couple of years we took precautions for Covid, serious flu cases in the UK dropped to almost nothing. And now: - ThreadSky

mckelvie.bsky.social • 140 days ago

Gonna be that guy again. The couple of years we took precautions for Covid, serious flu cases in the UK dropped to almost nothing. And now:

Reposted from Amy Borrett

Flu cases have quadrupled over the past month in hospitals in England, with NHS leaders warning that “skyrocketing” cases could make this winter “one of the worst we have ever seen”. Just published @financialtimes.com: on.ft.com/4j4g0h5

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cowboyvillain.bsky.social•140 days ago

Yeah the flu is getting worse this season. I think it's going to mutate again with a new variant.

nellucnhoj.bsky.social•140 days ago

Noticed this in Ireland too. It seems particularly rampant the past month or so.

mckelvie.bsky.social•140 days ago

"we always had flu season" yeah but a) not this bad and b) we always used to have a lot of diseases we did something about.

valenvsfel.bsky.social•140 days ago

Yeah, I really wish the lesson learned was “what we should just mask indoors during at least flu season or improve air handling in all public places”. Instead it was five all the phone cleaners…

mckelvie.bsky.social•140 days ago

(and no, I don't mean lockdowns. Which also would've been a lot shorter if anyone in power at the time understood exponential growth, but that's a whole other thing.)

catvincent.bsky.social•140 days ago

Though as we approach 5 years of effective lockdown, my wife and I do occasionally look at all those commenters talking about how psychologically scarring those months were and just mutter "fucking lightweights".

chrisredpath.bsky.social•140 days ago

Seems so obvious - all masks help a little, better masks help a lot. You can massively reduce your own chances of getting seriously ill with Flu just by getting a vaccine and wearing a good mask in busy indoor spaces. It's such a shame it got turned into a culture war topic.

mckelvie.bsky.social•140 days ago

For real.

chrisredpath.bsky.social•140 days ago

And don't even start on indoor air quality, it's a disaster. I was really hopeful just after the pandemic but it's been eroded so quickly.

mckelvie.bsky.social•140 days ago

We could have spent all this time fixing it for schools, hospitals, offices... but no.

jacen-art.bsky.social•140 days ago

Everyone I know has gotten the flu or covid again in the last month AND Norovirus (stomach flu) is exploding all over the place, no pun intended. It's a bad time for people-ing.

bighatdino.bsky.social•140 days ago

It’s depressing how companies, and how many people, went Not All Infectious Diseases post COVID

virginiabarksdale.bsky.social•140 days ago

In the US we eliminated a whole strain of flu permanently. Now it's like there's something going around year round, in addition to covid.

storrieville.bsky.social•140 days ago

A relative of mine would insist that's just because all our precautions during the height of Covid "weakened our immune systems." It's bizarre how best practices for cold/flu avoidance suddenly became questionable because people would rather listen to politicians & pundits than doctors & scientists.

mckelvie.bsky.social•140 days ago

There are studies now that prove viruses like colds don't actually leave you with protection for the next time you get one.

storrieville.bsky.social•140 days ago

Oh, but that's just "studies" by "scientists"! What do they know?

(It's maddening how easily people have started to dismiss evidence and facts.)

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