“Personally I doubt a lot of those flu death numbers. I think there is massive medical facility infection; over-prescription of multiple, conflicting drugs; plain old malpractice and institutional neglect; and death of unknown cause among the elderly that go into those flu totals.”
I don’t doubt the numbers, but I agree with you on the rest. For the longest time, they figured a mask and gloves would protect them...but that doesn’t work when the environment is saturated with virons, some, many, will get through.
I’ve seen death in the elderly chalked up to organ failure without acknowledgment that mis-medicating was the root cause. So I just assume it is easy for them to attribute death in that population to the flu—if they have the flu, or symptoms of the flu, at the time of death. Could be wrong. Haven’t actually seen it.