I expect an interesting side effect of all this is a reassessment of our tolerance for the "usual" influenza death rate. It's shockingly high. Could we save thousands of lives a year by people stopping going to work when they're sick, not going to grocery store when they're sick, etc?
I think that too. Basically the long long history of people of mostly old people checking out due to flu has normalized something terrible. As many people dying of flu as auto accidents.
Just people washing their hands and not working when sick would probably help a lot with the seasonal flu. But maybe another idea would be to get more people to use the flu vaccine every year.
