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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless my kid is exhibiting symptoms, my kid going to school. [b]At this point, it's no worse than the flu[/b], and we should treat it as such.[/quote]

It is no worse than influenza except for when it is worse than influenza.[/quote]
For the vast vast majority of people, it is not worse than the flu.

If you didn't quarantine for 5 days after being exposed to the flu but had no symptoms, then you don't need to with covid.

Every year, some people die from complications from the flu, yet we didn't force kids to quarantine for just being exposed.

I get that we needed to quarantine when covid first hit because we didn't know enough about the virus, and also we did not have a vax, but we do now, and it's no worse than the flu.[/quote]

Way more people die of covid than flu. Stop parroting unhelpful talking points [/quote]

Look at the recent covid death rate and compare it to influenza deaths in winter months.

Before covid, did you lock yourself down in the winter? Wear masks? Or did you instead go Christmas shopping and attend holiday parties?[/quote]

1. More people die of covid than influenza 
2. Influenza is seasonal covid is not yet seasonal 
3. Who said anything about locking down? We are discussing staying home when ill.  And yes I was cautious in flu months.  That’s what a double lung transplant due to LAM does to you [/quote]

The US has been at or below 100 covid deaths/day for several months now. Influenza killed about 28,000 during the 2018-19 flu season, which wasn't a particularly bad year. Nearly all of those deaths are over a 3 month period in the winter. That comes out to about 300 influenza deaths per day.

Influenza is more deadly in a typical winter than covid is right now.
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You're comparing annual rates for covid to seasonal rates for seasonal influenza. Bad comparison. Estimates of covid deaths in the US in 2022 are on the order of 250,000, compared to the number you provided of 28,000 flu deaths in 2018-2019.[/quote]

Shhhhh don’t let those pesky denominators get in the way of keyboard pseudo epidemiologists [/quote]

That doesn't mean what you seem to think it means.  Looking at the "denominator" is a reference to rates-- incidence over time-- instead of totals.  If you're making a decision based the situation at any given time, you look at the rate at that time.  The current rate of COVID deaths is lower than rate of influenza deaths in the winter.  So, unless you're changing your goalposts on risk, it doesn't make sense to do more than we would typically do in the winter.[/quote]

Or maybe we were doing the wrong thing in the winter, and now we have the opportunity to do better.[/quote]

Look around. [b]Nearly everyone disagrees with you. 
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But you're still free to wear a high-quality mask to protect yourself.[/quote]

Do we have the opportunity to do better? Yes. That is not a question of opinion, that is a question of fact. It is a fact that we have the opportunity to do better.

Do people want to use the opportunity to do better? Apparently not. It's just one of many opportunities to do better that we as a society in the US apparently don't want to use. Compared to other high-income countries, we die at much higher rates due to guns, we die at much higher rates due to cars, we die at much higher rates due to drug poisonings, and we die at much higher rates due to pregnancy and childbirth (among others), and[b] I guess that's just how it is, nothing to be done, people don't want to wear masks[/b].[/quote]

Yes this is how things are now. You can blather on here as much as you want but this is how things are now. [/quote]

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