FarFarAwayApr 2, 2024

if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out??

https://startrek.website/post/8746128

if the bird flu started spreading between humans, how long would you need to stay quarantined before it was safe to come out?? - Star Trek∶ Website

Im talking worst case scenario, something like Station 11 or the movie Contagion If the bird flu started spreading rapidly from human to human, and it devastated our population as it can in birds or marine life, how long would one have to hole up in seclusion before the virus burned through the population and it would probably be safe to come out. Obviously, this is not the current situation, and this scenario is a long way from becoming any type of reality. This is just a hypothetical. If turds hit the fan, I dont want to waste time trying to figure this out in the moment while everyone’s ill, and can’t answer. Move over B’s, I want first dibs on the tp!

Show threadMouselemmingApr 2, 2024
We killed off one strain of flu by our less-than-perfect quarantining for COVID. If we mask up for Texas Moo Flu, we’d stop spreading COVID around so much and might slow down its mutation too. At least with flu we know how it’s transmitted, and have related vaccines to tweak. Maybe we’ll be able to call off the Return To Workplace bullshit, too.
Show threadTywèle [she|her]Apr 2, 2024

We killed off one strain of flu by our less-than-perfect quarantining for COVID.

We did? Do you have more information on that?

Show threadammoniumApr 2, 2024
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9524051/
Has influenza B/Yamagata become extinct and what implications might this have for quadrivalent influenza vaccines?

While two influenza B virus lineages have co-circulated, B/Yamagata-lineage circulation has not been confirmed since March 2020. The WHO FluNet database indicates that B/Yamagata-lineage detections were reported in 2021 and 2022. However, detections can ...

PubMed Central (PMC)
Show threadAtemu

That article is interesting and important but it does not show any causal links between lockdowns and the disappearance.

It is, for example, also possible that it was merely displaced by SARS-CoV2.

Apr 2, 2024 at 12:29pmWeb
Show threadMouselemmingApr 2, 2024
It wasn’t the lockdown as much as the masking and hand washing, and especially having sick people self-isolate while they had symptoms.
Show threadAtemuApr 2, 2024
I consider those measures to be included in “lockdown” but it’s besides the point: The paper contains no evidence that those measures made it disappear, just that it disappeared.
Show threadIzzgoApr 2, 2024

I appreciate your close and literal reading of that study. This was new news to me so I looked a bit further. STATnews and others seem to think it was the various lockdown protocols.

B/Yamagata viruses haven’t been detected anywhere in the world since late March 2020, when Covid pandemic lockdowns and social distancing appeared to have halted circulation of this family of lineage of flu B.

FDA advisory panel recommends a streamlined flu vaccine for next fall

When Americans line up for flu vaccines next fall, they will likely be getting vaccines that no longer contain protection against a family of flu viruses that appears to be extinct.

STAT
Show threadAtemuApr 3, 2024

No, they’ve got the same information as us. That’s why they explicitly say:

when Covid pandemic lockdowns and social distancing appeared to have halted circulation

It is still speculation, not data.

I’d tend to agree with the speculation but it’s still speculation.

Show threadIzzgoApr 4, 2024
To be honest, I agree with you that it is speculation, and also that I tend to agree with the speculation. It's important to note when something is speculative.
Show threadammoniumApr 2, 2024
How would it be displaced by SARS-CoV2? Wouldn’t that require cross immunity?