Originally Posted by
dorabella
Or could it be that flu infections are just not being recorded? I seem to remember that back in August the NHS/ONS/HSE - can't remember which acronym - changed its policy and started conflating all respiratory viruses under the Covid banner.
A friend of mine told me today that her entire household has 'caught it' and the symptoms she described to me sounded exactly like a classic case of flu. One of her sons has tested positive and negative before he supposedly infected the household - yet who really knows what they have caught when the PCR test is known to be an inexact science and picks up every thing but boys and rent (as the saying goes).
I've always practiced hand hygiene but that's because I was brought up to do so. Don't think that during this pandemic though that it has made that much difference to not spreading virus. Crikey when you go into a hospital, supposedly a safe hygienic environment, that where you pick up most infections ....MRSA ... Covid ... to name the most obvious.
Just my opinion and probably not one that many people share I suspect.