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I'm confused on the reporting. The push from folks I'm seeing is definitely inline with social distancing and masking being the big wins.

I thought, during the time, it was also felt that different respiratory viruses effectively out compete each other? Not seeing that mentioned much, at the moment.

I'm also somewhat terrified that folks seem to be taking this in the anti-vaccine direction.

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Whenever there's any positive news on masking, there's always online pushback under some theory or another. I'm not saying GP here is necessarily guilty of anything, of course.

Yeah, people who are making claims about social distancing, etc. are wildly leaping to conclusions.

There are a number of more plausible / simpler alternatives. For example: the innate immune system gets activated whenever you have an infection. This is the most primitive form of immunity that you have, and is blunt (fever, snot, generic immunoglobulins, etc.) but effective at warding off pathogens of any sort. It's why you don't often get two different upper respiratory infections at the same time.

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