Side Note on mask use:
Every Year I get the flu shot.
Every year I get the flu.
This year, I did not.
Coincidence. Maybe.
Science. Probably.
I'm just a number cruncher in grocery store with a high school education. There are smarter people out there than me that can confirm or deny this.
@MrsBentoBako some years flu shot is only 40% effective. there are lots of strains and the vaccine can only cover a few. they make educated guess on which ones the vaccine will cover. that may change with these new mRNA vaccines tho.
@MrsBentoBako I get the flu shot every year, too.
I'm gonna keep getting it.
I'll get covid boosters if I need to. I don't care.
I am, though, going to keep wearing masks during flu season and when indoors with strange company.
@evistre
Me too. Because that one time I don't get the flu shot is the one time that I put my mother back in the hospital with some lung thing that kills her this time.
She is still on O2 and probably will be for the foreseeable future. Anything I can do to protect her I will.
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We were commenting on the same thing in our house but attributed it to social distancing and isolation. Prob all 3 reasons.