I was going to get in shape, eat well and get an adequate amount of rest this cold and flu season to stave off illness, but I think I'll just wear 3 masks instead. Science!
I don't think discouraging people from getting flu shots is a bad thing. But normalizing mask wearing every time there's an outbreak of anything, or anytime it's perceived as cold or flu season, definitely is.
In 34 years of nursing I never received a flu shot and I never masked prior to Covid until the hospital systems started mandating one or the other during flu season which started sometime around 2015. Interestingly Dr. Offit made a case against masks at the time https://www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbasedmedicine/infectioncontrol/54905.
I was going to get in shape, eat well and get an adequate amount of rest this cold and flu season to stave off illness, but I think I'll just wear 3 masks instead. Science!
I don't think discouraging people from getting flu shots is a bad thing. But normalizing mask wearing every time there's an outbreak of anything, or anytime it's perceived as cold or flu season, definitely is.
In 34 years of nursing I never received a flu shot and I never masked prior to Covid until the hospital systems started mandating one or the other during flu season which started sometime around 2015. Interestingly Dr. Offit made a case against masks at the time https://www.medpagetoday.com/hospitalbasedmedicine/infectioncontrol/54905.
The influenza vaccine causes virus interference with coronaviruses, so take with caution. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126676/
OMG people are so stupid. Sorry. But it makes me incapable of having any discussion with face veilers. Call them face veilers, not maskers. Puritans.