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Originally Posted by Johnhitbox
What happens when you don't expose people to viruses that we have been exposed to for years? You're disrupting the natural immunity to a yearly pandemic. It's gonna come back 10 fold next year or sooner. Unless we have a larger population take the flu vaccine. I strongly believe will have record high or higher than normal deaths from the next flu.
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People that have been wiped out by COVID include all of those that are vulnerable to the flu.
Our vulnerable population has been culled to an extent we haven't seen in quite some time. When this happens with particularly bad flu seasons, deaths are decreased in the following years because there are less likely candidates to die.
It should be expected that in the event of a successful vaccination campaign that leads to a sharp end to COVID that the post pandemic death rate will be abnormally low for a few years.
What's especially crazy about all of this, is we just came off of an extremely bad flu year in 2018, and this damage is still being done.
The world will be left with more "healthy" people on average than we've seen in a very long time. They aren't going to be dropping dead of the flu like crazy for the next few years unless lingering symptoms in COVID survivors make a ton of people vulnerable to future infections.