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vivster said:

Sorry, but that is just absolute bullshit. Maybe the line becomes blurrier when you compare a bad cold with a light flu instead of the other way around. You talk as if the flu has only one mode and is as strong for everyone. Same with a cold.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2014/03/17/290878964/even-if-you-dont-have-symptoms-you-may-still-have-the-flu

Might as well start claiming that people who only have a sore throat cannot have COVID-19 because they are not dying.

It should be obvious there must be many mild cases of the flu, or otherwise it wouldn't spread so effectively each season.

For the US.

If up to 14% of the population was puking in bed for a week each year, more would be done on prevention :/