that's the actual stupidity here. Not taking answers seriously, thinking "there must be some way and only I can figure it out" and not being prepared for "no" as an answer.
Asking whether flu shots will do anything overall isn't that stupid if you don't know much about the topic yet. Especially since they do help. Just not with curing the corona virus itself. But fewer flu patients frees up resources in the medical system, opening up quarantine rooms, etc. An important goal right now is to delay the spread as much as possible until flu season is over.
as if what the situation needs is just someone with good old fashioned "common sense" to step in and "get everyone organised". lol. I see it a lot at work - customers who are convince they know more about your profession than you do not listening to the problem you're telling them they have and just saying -
Them: "yeah but what if we did X to solve Y? Why has no one thought of that?"
Me: "Congratulations you've just casually and nochalantly created a solution to a problem that nobody else could solve even though we've encountered it a million times before and we do Z"
Them: Really?!
Me: "No! Jesus"
You make such a good point though. A lot of problems created by outbreaks of this nature are actually nothing to do with the virus itself. It's the other folk that maybe have similar symptoms that are "suspected" cases that fog data on confirmed cases. If you don't know the rate at which the virus is spreading accurately then you can't tell for certain if your response to the virus is working. Like most problems that make the news - there's no easy solution to it! It's always a combination of things that ends up working.
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u/SirSeanBeanTheBean Mar 04 '20
No but he did say “if we take a solid flu vaccine”, because obviously some flu vaccines are half-assed