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The question no one is asking: How many people died of regular flu this year?
The Fop

Posted on 06/21/2020 11:50:08 AM PDT by The Fop

Back in the early part of the year, prior to the COVID-19 lockdowns, a lot of people, including the likes of Dr. Fauci and Anderson Cooper, told us we should be more worried about the seasonal flu than COVID-19.

Typically, around 55,000 Americans die every year from seasonal flu. There are all these websites out there tracking COVID-19 deaths. They tell us how many people died each day from COVID-19 in each State and each country. Currently over 122,000 people have supposedly died in America from COVID-19.

So are there another 55,000 people who died from the seasonal flu in addition to the 122,000 who supposedly from COVID-19? Are there any charts that can tell us? Is anyone keeping track? Is anyone even asking?

Well here is my guesstimate. I'd guess that the typical average of 55,000 Americans died of the flu this year. Another 30,000 elderly people died of natural causes, but their deaths were falsely recorded as being caused by COVID-19. And maybe another 40,000 actually died from COVID-19.

I'm not a doctor, and I'm open to someone completely disproving my guesstimate. Please, somebody, show me some hard data on seasonal flu deaths this year. Because I haven't heard one word about the seasonal flu, ever since the locKdowns began. AND I SMELL A RAT!


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1 posted on 06/21/2020 11:50:09 AM PDT by The Fop
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To: The Fop

I’ll forward your inquiry to Dr. Fauci for an authoritative answer. LOL.


2 posted on 06/21/2020 11:51:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: The Fop

Sorry. Not No One.

I’ve been asking that question ever since early March.


3 posted on 06/21/2020 11:52:52 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: The Fop

Why don’t you provide something solid?

It’s a good question. But you fail in providing any information.


4 posted on 06/21/2020 11:53:57 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: The Fop

0, all are Covid.


5 posted on 06/21/2020 11:55:33 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: The Fop

I think the biggest concern was and is this CV19 is much more contagious than the Flu and affects oxygen levels in the blood so much more and especially in us Geezers.

Me I havent worn a mask till the Dermo last weeks they required it.

I dont think the people will tolerate what the mayors and governors shoved down their throats these past months if this crap spikes up.

Is just going to be a new part of life.


6 posted on 06/21/2020 11:55:52 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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Easy. Take the covid deaths, and add 3 zeroes to it


7 posted on 06/21/2020 11:56:03 AM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: ifinnegan

Do a search, give ya something to do


8 posted on 06/21/2020 11:57:07 AM PDT by Bell Bouy II
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To: The Fop

All US deaths this year are covid. Including car accidents, suicides, heart attacks, cancer, strokes, tetanus, old age and getting run over by a bus and/or an Uber.


9 posted on 06/21/2020 11:59:27 AM PDT by albie
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To: The Fop

The seasonal flu has been around a very long time - we have a functional herd immunity from it by being exposed to this kind of virus for a long time and we have a vaccine for it that a significant amount of the population gets every year. We also know how to treat it. The seasonal flu never typically causes the rate of hospitalizations COVID19 was causing as it first started spreading and we had no prior exposure or immunity to it nor vaccine (not to mention many states failed to have enough equipment on hand to be able to handle a major outbreak of any disease and we needed time to replenish this). They are not really comparable. That said, since the initial outbreak, we have learned a lot about it and how to successfully treat it...which is why the danger from it has been declining in many places. We will eventually achieve this same herd immunity.

That’s the difference. That does not mean some policy makers have not used this situation to implement policies that were not necessary, or if they were, kept them in place far longer than necessary. As we know, the Left lies about stuff that is true and uses it for other purposes.


10 posted on 06/21/2020 11:59:37 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: The Fop

And diabetes
And cardiovascular problems
And other

Let’s see how many are missing from ALL OTHER CAUSES than the Kung-Flu.


11 posted on 06/21/2020 12:00:17 PM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: The Fop

And diabetes
And cardiovascular problems
And other

Let’s see how many are missing from ALL OTHER CAUSES than the Kung-Flu.


12 posted on 06/21/2020 12:00:17 PM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: The Fop
It took literally 15 seconds to find this.

2019-2020 U.S. Flu Season: Preliminary Burden Estimates

13 posted on 06/21/2020 12:02:02 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: albie

All US deaths this year are covid:.

Including car accidents, suicides, heart attacks, cancer, strokes, tetanus, old age and getting run over by a bus and/or an Uber and death by being hit by a falling star!


14 posted on 06/21/2020 12:02:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Can I trust that you and I will get out and vote for Trump, this November!)
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To: The Fop

The Covid-19 Death figures are highly inflated by omitting the real cause of deaths by other conditions.


15 posted on 06/21/2020 12:03:28 PM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: semimojo

I see the data for flu is only taken during the season ending in early April.... if you come down with it or die after that you don’t count. Meanwhile the data for Covid 19 apparently has no date limit since it’s new and they haven’t determined its seasonality yet, and efforts to flatten the curve could have altered it.


16 posted on 06/21/2020 12:10:34 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: The Fop

None.

All deaths have been caused by Kung Flu this year.

It’s the only thing people are dying of.


17 posted on 06/21/2020 12:10:42 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: The Fop
"Seasonal flu is causing many more deaths than COVID-19"

Mayo Clinic report from March, 2020.

18 posted on 06/21/2020 12:11:39 PM PDT by RightField
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To: The Fop

It’s a farce because the numbers are only estimates. That’s all they are.

They are vastly overestimated. Just ask you doctor how many patients he’s lost to flu this year. Then ask over his career.

Don’t be shocked when he tells you it’s zero for both.


19 posted on 06/21/2020 12:11:51 PM PDT by romanesq (Flubro, from the people who brought you the stupidity of grifters & the letter Q)
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To: The Fop

The guy who was shot in Seattle’s CHOP died of COVID too (not to far from the truth in how WA state counts)


20 posted on 06/21/2020 12:12:14 PM PDT by llevrok (Vote while it is still legal! And often.)
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