[denimnerd46]

flu season is pretty low as far as I've heard.

I don't have a lot of evidence only this and some articles I read last year about it being dead as soon as masks and social distancing came about

https://www.fox4news.com/news/cooks-childrens-hospital-repor...

[spijdar]

I can't speak to a wide area, but where I live in the US, the flu is definitely not dead. Despite wearing a mask, keeping socially distance and basically not traveling except when essential, I caught type B of the flu, and my doctors told me they've had a shocking number of flu cases.

They seemed to expect to see fewer, too, but have observed the opposite.

[chrononaut]

> Seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains lower than usual for this time of year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

While not dead as GP expressed, there are notably fewer infections so far this year.

[spijdar]

That's fair. I didn't mean to imply things are exploding, though I guess it sounds like I did.

It just sounds like even doctors expected flu to be almost non-existent, but instead it seems ... oddly normal.

[denimnerd46]

> Key Points

> Flu activity is unusually low at this time but may increase in the coming months.

How did you even get the flu.

[neves]

I'll probably start to use a mask every flu season.

[dmix]

That's a good point, my local pharmacist said that sales of cold and cough syrup has been down significantly, almost non existent, since our city has had lockdowns.