system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If everyone in the world didn't go to work/school/stores for 2 weeks, could we make the Common Cold and Flu go extinct?

Since cold/flu bacteria is contagious for 5 days after getting better, which takes about a week.
gpt
it is unlikely, flu is a seasonal virus and the main theory as to why it changes often is because the virus is normally found in the gut of migratory birds. the virus stays there and mutates over the year and when the birds fly over, their leavings are likely to contain a new strain or similar strain.