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[–] Obrez 2 points -2 points (+0|-2) ago 

People are driving less and eating home cooked meals more, fewer car accident and heart disease deaths make sense.

I'm incredulous about flu numbers but the goal of mitigative efforts like masks and social distancing is to reduce the virus' R0(rate of infection/reproduction) and covid19 is more infectious than flu by a significant amount, it is entirely possible that flu has fallen below a rate of reproduction of 1 and covid19 hasn't in that scenario flu dies out and covid doesn't.

I must admit it I find it dubious that the death totals are so similar to last year even with all the changes.

it is possible that masks and social distancing have