mathjak107 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 1:21 pm
That is my go to expert..it is very interesting as far as this co virus stuff not being able to exist well together
Thanks, that was a pretty good video. Just so we're all aware, in that video Zdogg's theory about why the flu suddenly "disappeared" after Covid appeared isn't that it was because of Covid precautions (masks, distancing, etc.); he said it's because studies have shown that respiratory viral infections typically don't coexist very well. I.e., he's saying it's likely that the increase in Covid infections directly caused the decrease in flu infections.
I'm actually not yet convinced by Zdogg's coexistence argument since flu infections appeared to suddenly fall off a cliff, yet Covid didn't spread to the majority of the population right away. For example, almost a year passed before my wife and I (and several of my wife's family members) were infected with Covid. Given that fact, it would have made more sense to see flu infections decrease slowly over a number of months rather than suddenly fall off a cliff.
So I still think the theory that fits the observations better is that most cases that
would have been diagnosed as the flu in previous years (based on symptoms, not viral tests since flu tests are not common) are now diagnosed as Covid. Not because of a conspiracy, but simply because everyone with flu-like symptoms is now given a Covid test, but almost never a flu test. Plus, a lot of Covid cases are "probable cases", meaning they're based only on symptoms rather than a viral test result. In many cases, those symptoms could be due to flu rather than Covid, but I don't think most doctors currently consider that possibility when making the diagnosis.
Unfortunately, Zdogg didn't even mention that as another possible explanation, despite it being a very simple and obvious one.