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What was the last major belief you took a 180 on? What caused you to change your mind? (lemmy.zip)
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[–] 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (4 children)

You never get symptomatic flu? Can you please get to yourself to the nearest research hospital and get started on the genetic immunity or whatever it is you have. You may be the key for saving millions of lives and untold suffering.

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  • [–] 4 points 13 hours ago

    A large portion of the population have immune systems that keep them from having symptoms of common diseases, or symptoms so mild don't notice. That's part of why transmission rates aren't 100%.

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  • [–] 0 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Only 1 in 200 people get the flu each year. Lots of people never catch the flu in their life. Flu is pretty rare compared to the common cold.

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  • [–] 4 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

    1 in 200? No. Funny how the ones who don't provide sources are the ones who spread nonsense.

    1 Billion people a year get it. That is roughly 1 in 8.

    Of these 3-5 million get severe illness, and out of that you get roughly 300-600k deaths.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago

    Oh, you know what? I misread the statistics site and read NSW's rate as the entire country's. It's actually around one in 100

    https://immunisationcoalition.org.au/influenza-statistics/

    There have been 254,485 notifications of laboratory confirmed influenza reported to the NNDSS in the year to 9 November 2026.

    With a population of 27 million, that's one in 100.

    The reason it's 1 in 100 in this country, and 1 in 8 worldwide, is because of our great healthcare system and protective social determinants of health, like nutrition and daily hygiene.

    Since this is Lemmy, I assumed most people commenting would be from rich countries like Australia, so an Australian statistic would have better applicability to this population than a global statistic.

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