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by taeric 732 days ago
Latest study I saw on flu was about 10% of people get it each season. And there was another study showing that families with toddlers are basically always exposed.

COVID does follow the same general rates of corona viruses, from what I remember. Which is to say it is higher than flu. So, I am not trying to downplay that.
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graeme 731 days ago
If 10% get it then you'd get it roughly once in every ten years.
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taeric 731 days ago
I'm very hesitant to extrapolate from those numbers. Often times they will use that as "per exposure" number. Such that it will often be far higher than you'd take from a naive reading. Sadly, I don't remember where I saw that number, so can't check up on it.

That said, feels very in the weeds here. My stance is largely to have as much patience with folks as can be. I don't personally go through as much effort as many do, but I see no reason for that to be something to get upset over, either.

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