Paul Hogan
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The next magical thinking that is occurring is the impending flu season/winter. Don't worry experts and anyone that knows anything are telling you it most likely will be bad when the two diseases collide but hey what do they know. So if you are bitching and complaining right now realize that here in this country the next 2 months or so are about as good as it will get so enjoy this awesome (horrible) situation we currently have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/worl...8aaaca-e084-11ea-82d8-5e55d47e90ca_story.html
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The pandemic has made a lot of bad things worse, but South Africa's near-total lack of a flu season this year stands out as a rare positive effect.
The country’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has three laboratories that would normally record more than 1,000 cases of flu between April and August, winter in the Southern Hemisphere. As the 2020 season ends, they have recorded just one.
“It is a totally unprecedented event to not see flu,” said Cheryl Cohen, who leads NICD’s respiratory disease team. While she and other experts in South Africa said some people were certainly staying home and not reporting mild sicknesses, they all agreed that South Africa basically skipped its flu season — and that the coronavirus is to thank.
“The main explanation is that measures against coronavirus are having an impact on flu transmission,” Cohen said.