Where has the Flu Gone?

[BIAD]

My 2 cents worth says the masks, social distancing and hand sanitizer killed it out...
like it would have it COVID had never even reared its ugly head, lol!

Thanks, BIAD, for giving me a helmet in my avatar... much more comfortable than a mask.

You're welcome!

I think you're right about the alienation being a contributor to keeping the normal seasonal flu situation in
countries to a mere storyline that didn't warrant reporting. And besides, the word 'flu' doesn't have the same
scary connotations as a virus' name that sounds like a nerve-agent!

I think it's a sad time when first-world countries have to be told to wash their hands as part of a remedy, wasn't
that a standard thing at one time? Although, I don't recall it being advice to combat flu in the past and of course,
one would just 'isolate' when feeling ill anyway.

But today, we now have a highly-transmissible virus that doesn't have symptoms if you're already immune or take
an injection that doesn't stop that transmission... there's a joke in there somewhere.
It's almost like a horse with a horn on its head being called a unicorn -except there's no such thing as a horned-horse
called a unicorn. (Unless you create one!)

Using words and a type of infectious disease, the systems we've slowly been acclimatised to have been -are still follow,
are screwing us with our pants on. Narratives evolve quicker than a Influenza infection and the fever of these poorly
-constructed chunks of fear-porn travel faster than anything China could have created.

I still titter when I see Governments advising isolating oneself for ten days, advice based on a working-week, not on the
internal duration of this particular flu! (It used to be fourteen days, but they dumped the idea because it meant absence
from worshipping on a Sunday and could effect weekend Journalism! Like we're suppose to believe that you can only
catch Covid on a Monday?)


If you look at the planning that went into the publicity of this situation, I believe the international fear that it created can
be seen to originate when other headline-grabbing events waned.
(Just my opinion)