Posted on 10/17/2020 5:21:31 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
"Twindemic."
It's the new literary expression of panic being propagated by politicians and public health officials as pretext for continuing the social control measures indefinitely. If you search for the term "twindemic," you will find all sorts of ominous predictions of a "perfect storm" of a raging coronavirus pandemic converging with a harsh flu season to overrun the hospitals and pile up the bodies in the morgues. There's just one problem: We've already had COVID-19 for at least nine months, and we've seen that this virus and the seasonal flu do not proliferate together.
....The numbers are truly remarkable. In Australia, for example, there were just 107 lab-confirmed cases of influenza this past August, as opposed to 61,000 in August 2019. The same dynamic was observed in countries like South Africa, Chile, and Argentina – all countries that get their flu season during the North American summer....
The concept of one respiratory virus boxing out another is not new. A recent study published by immunobiologists at the Yale University School of Medicine found that the H1N1 epidemic in 2009 was cut short in the fall in several European countries by the seasonal rhinovirus spread. "These findings show that one respiratory virus can block infection with another through stimulation of antiviral defences in the airway mucosa, supporting the idea that interference from rhinovirus disrupted the 2009 IAV pandemic in Europe," asserted the four researchers. "These results indicate that viral interference can potentially affect the course of an epidemic, and this possibility should be considered when designing interventions for seasonal influenza epidemics and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic."...
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I’ve seen your posting history and everyone is wrong but you.
Must be tough to be so perfect in such an imperfect world.
And besides “You’re wrong” is hardly a compelling argument to make. Especially when you don’t tell anyone what *right* is.
So don’t waste my time.
That happened with H1N1... it was practically the only strain that year IIRC
Yes, they are. I had the superdose for seniors on Thursday.
No side effects.
Maybe COVID-19 resides in the body for weeks, causing very few problems for most people, maybe some people just feel like their allergies are a bit worse, and all the while it is keeping people from getting flu.
“My understanding of how bacteria and viruses work is hat they create a favorable environment for themselves which turns out to be unfavorable for another bug.”
Not exactly. Virions destroy their host cells.
“They also monopolize the food supply.”
Virions don’t eat.
Or they are just lumping seasonal flu cases in to pump up covid numbers.
With a 10% efficacy rate.
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