Interesting comment from a poster with the name good_entity.
One if the comments, from your link....
I was just banned from /r/health on reddit after posting about my experiences as a registered nurse during covid. One of which was noticing the immediate cessation of testing for influenza, 2-3 weeks after the onset of the “pandemic.” So basically, everyone in healthcare knows that during the cold season, a lot of immunocompromised people (older, younger, and people with comorbidities) DIE from the flu in large numbers every cold season. Every year hospitals and their ICU’s are overwhelmed with patients with respiratory illness. When covid first started happening, I remember for the first few weeks after the onset, we were still routinely testing patients for influenza. We were testing everyone who came in with flu like symptoms for the flu AND covid. After about 2-3 weeks, my hospital stopped testing for influenza all together and only tested for covid. I remember for the first few weeks, I was looking in everyones charts (I work in emergency) in the ER, and I noticed that the sickest people were all flu B positive, it didn’t matter if they had covid or not, many of them tested positive for covid as well. I wonder how many people died from the flu, and we called it a covid death because they also tested positive for covid.
This finding goes along with my theory that many, if not most, of the positive covid results were actually cases of influenza.