Yet another reason not to be around humans.
Not only are they the most dangerous species on the planet they’re also riddled with disease.
this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2025
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We are pitiful creatures.
Oof. When you paint it that way.... That's pretty bad 😅
It's not too late to get the flu vaccine, and it's free with nearly every insurance.
apparently the vaccinated are faring a little better than the unvaccinated counterparts. who da thunk it?
I got the vaccine as soon as it was available. A good friend procrastinated. We saw their little nephew together and hung out indoors one day. The nephew got the flu. My friend got the flu. I seem to be fine. My friend was bedridden for about a week.
They got their flu and COVID shots after they recovered, at least.
It’s never a bad time to start masking and washing your hands!
We had quite the rough go of it in Japan. our area had whole schools closing. We got vaccinated and have fared well (so far, at least)
Well, it is common for the winter. Weekly stats don’t really say much. How it compares to previous years would show if these numbers are interesting.
I'm just going to copy over my comment from a different thread (all the below is that comment):
I was saying weeks ago that this was going to be a bad flu season in the US, because flu cases in China , Japan , Canada and the UK were all skyrocketing.
And three weeks ago WHO said
Although global activity remains within expected seasonal ranges, early increases and higher activity than typical at this time of year have been observed in some regions. [...] Since August 2025, there has been a rapid increase of [new variant] viruses detected from several countries
So even if you don't trust the CDC (and I would argue that you might not be able to trust the heads of CDC and FDA but most of the workers believe in their public health missions), it's well within plausibility that flu cases are skyrocketing across the US.
Thanks for the added information. I want to clarify, I wasn’t disputing anything posted or saying I didn’t trust; just that without annual context I wasn’t able to glean much actual trend information.
Sorry, I was tired when I pasted yesterday. The comment that I copied into my reply was in response to someone saying that they didn't trust the CDC and FDA flu warnings because they were all trumpian now; that part of my comment was directed at them and was included in the paste. I tried to indicate that when I said "all the below is my other comment" but I was tired and I guess I didn't indicate well enough. Sorry for the confusion.
Anecdotally, this has been an absolutely hellish season.
I've heard its pretty rough. Like, 35-40 year olds on ECMO rough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_influenza_statistics_by_flu_season
It looks like 30k deaths or so per season is average. We still have months to go, so time will tell.
Can we not name this after the disease that kills 99% of humans in a Stephen King novel please? It feels like asking for trouble.
Captain Trips was the virus in The Stand
It had multiple nicknames, superflu was the main one.
Measles is spreading through the US and Canada, btw
Can confirm, family and I are sick.
It's not hitting me particularly bad, but the kids are sick too and that's a sleepless nightmare. Though, I'm probably worse than I realize since a sense of responsibility is kinda having me power through.
That's rough, and I definitely get where you're coming from. Hope you all recover quickly!
Lol. In America? Colour me fucking surprised.