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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m in my late 30s, and my kids, and our whole household, seem to be sick for about two weeks at a time, at least twice every winter. They’re otherwise very healthy, active kids, and we all get flu shots. It doesn’t seem unique to our family either; my coworkers’ kids and my friends’ kids all seem to be constantly sick as well.

I don’t remember being sick this often when I was a kid, and my parents didn’t seem to get sick much either, though maybe memory plays a role. My parents have also said we weren't sick like this, nor were they sick like this as kids. I grew up in Miami, so I wonder if we were less affected by seasonal illnesses there. I remember having strep throat and some kind of enterovirus, but I don’t remember getting the flu every single winter. Are flu and common colds actually worse now than when I was growing up, or does it just feel that way?[/quote]

everyone is more sick now after covid, it wrecked our immune systems

but no one wants to talk about this [/quote]

I think people really want to talk about this, but the discussions always get deleted.[/quote]

I just don't think it's true. I believe some people have post-viral issues after Covid, but I also think people had post-viral issues after flu or RSV even before Covid. I don't think there is any evidence that people as a whole have weakened immune systems after Covid, or that people get sick more frequently now. I'm not talking about anecdotal evidence -- I mean if you look CDC data on flu cases and deaths before and after Covid, you see that the years since Covid have been in keeping with prior year averages: https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/data-vis/past-seasons.html

I think Covid made people hyper aware of viral illness. Prior to Covid I think don't think people thought much of everyone in the family getting a cold or norovirus beyond "wow this sucks." But people accepted it was inevitable at least some of the time and didn't go looking for broad societal trends. They were just like "yeah the whole family was sick the last two weeks, it sucked."[/quote]

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