[irishjuggler]

Meanwhile, the same population groups are suffering badly from covid19; is there any connection?

Yep, all the social distancing efforts are affecting things. There was an item locally in the S.F. Bay Area that a big local health-care provider Kaiser Permanente says that plain old colds and flu are down like 50%.

[Persevero]

Will the yearly flu season be used as a new reason to deprive us of our constitutional rights five months out of each year?

[mewzilla]

Reported colds and flu are down.

I’m concerned that some folks may be refusing to seek medical advice for mild symptoms because they don’t want to quarantined for 14 days. And if so, and if some of those folks aren’t self-quarantining for whatever it is they have...

The cold and flu stats could be good news or bad news.