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Brace Yourself: In 2018 the Flu Put More of a Strain on U.S. Hospitals Than COVID-19 Has (Fauci Still at Large)
RedState ^ | 7/12/2020 | Michael Thau

Posted on 07/12/2020 12:33:52 PM PDT by Michal T

In 2018 local news outlets across America ran stories about hospitals overrun by the flu. Yet it never became a national news story and, moreover, healthcare workers handled the overflow so that no one was denied medical care who needed it without violating our rates, wrecking the economy, or causing untold collateral devastation and death.


TOPICS: Politics; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; coronavirus; covid19; fauci

1 posted on 07/12/2020 12:33:52 PM PDT by Michal T
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To: Michal T

The worry was the additive cases of A, B and 19.


2 posted on 07/12/2020 12:36:41 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Michal T

Colloidal silver kills all viruses and bacteria

You can buy a generator and make it yourself or purchase it from health food store

Google the white paper about silver nano particles and E. coli

10 ppm kill 99.5% within five minutes of E. coli

The silver eye and also kills viruses

and just like they don’t know that viruses are alive or can call them alive

they don’t know why but it makes it in active in bacteria it interrupts their uptake of oxygen and starve them that way

Silver is been well known for thousands of years to have incredible properties for human beings

It’s what all kings and queens and important people of eaten off for thousands of years

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3 posted on 07/12/2020 12:49:26 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump pence II!)
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To: Michal T

WHat’s disconcerting about Covid is that it is from CHINA and likely has a manmade element to it (IE: may be of zoonotic origin, but tampered with in a lab.) —And this is likely why the virus has such a troublesome anatomy or whatever.

We should not put it past China to be careless about something like this or to even deliberately initiate bio-warfare in the future! In the meantime, let’s be grateful Covid ISN’T on level in severity to that of Ebola or something...

That being said...It is horribly impacting elderly people especially in nursing homes — more than the flu — and due to all our masks and protective gear COMING from China — we were NOT equipped to handle this on a nationwide level!

Had we been able to be prepared, we wouldn’t have had to shut down the economy. We could have encouraged mask wearing in high traffic indoor spaces like airports/markets, and take special care of the elderly and put any adults with pre-existing conditions on higher alert.


4 posted on 07/12/2020 1:08:51 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Michal T

And to add: The disarray of hospital protocol also has something to do with why the virus has been more problematic than the flu...


5 posted on 07/12/2020 1:12:24 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Michal T

And to add: The disarray of hospital protocol also has something to do with why the virus has been more problematic than the flu...


6 posted on 07/12/2020 1:12:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Truthoverpower
The Mayo clinic has something to say about it - do you have more reputable sources?

Manufacturers of colloidal silver products often claim that they are cure-alls, boosting your immune system, fighting bacteria and viruses, and treating cancer, HIV/AIDS, shingles, herpes, eye ailments and prostatitis.

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7 posted on 07/12/2020 1:19:44 PM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: trebb

same in Australia, which had 902 flu deaths in 2019, and 1,181 in 2017. in 2019, hospitals in the State of Queensland were overwhelmed, put on yellow alert. yet you barely heard a word from MSM; there were no public information ads, not even advice to wash your hands.

Australia is as hysterical over covid as anywhere else. Australia has had 108 deaths. 86 in just 3 States (there are six States and two Territories).

following written just weeks before lockdown 2020:

11 Feb: ABC Australia: Flu season which struck down 310,000 Australians ‘worst on record’ due to early outbreaks
ABC Sunshine Coast / By Tara Cassidy
Last year, Australia experienced its worst flu season on record, with more than 310,000 people presenting to hospital and health services nationwide.
The figure is seven times greater than Australia’s previous 18-year average...

Queensland Health Minister, Stephen Miles, said the intense season put a major strain on hospital and health services nationwide, which would have to incorporate early outbreaks into future planning...

While 2019 saw the highest number of influenza cases across the country, 2017 still holds the record for the highest number of flu-related deaths, with over 1,100 cases.
Last year there were over 900 influenza linked deaths in Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-11/early-outbreaks-to-blame-for-worst-flu-season-on-record/11949320

28 Mar 2019: Brisbane Times Australia: ‘Code yellow’ lifts at south-east Queensland hospitals
By Felicity Caldwell
All south-east Queensland hospitals are now off “code yellow” after patients were warned to stay away from emergency departments on Tuesday...
Mr Miles said emergency departments often experienced pressure during winter but the system had never seen this kind of sustained increase in demand for hospitals across south-east Queensland outside of winter...

Authorities have blamed a spike in summer flu cases and aged care patients taking up beds in emergency departments for the crisis...
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/queensland/code-yellow-lifts-at-south-east-queensland-hospitals-20190328-p518g7.html

2020 and Australia is as hysterical over covid as anywhere else in the world.
Australia has had 108 deaths. 86 of them in just 3 States (there are six States and two Territories). can’t find number hospitalised. borders between 4 States closed for weeks, some beginning to re-open now. just six deaths since late May.

MSM doesn’t talk about the death toll now, and they never refer to the 2017 or 2019 flu seasons.


8 posted on 07/12/2020 4:24:57 PM PDT by MAGAthon (g)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

CMCC. CHEAPLY MADE CHINESE CRAP


9 posted on 07/12/2020 6:40:33 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Michal T

While visiting in SW Florida, Cape Coral, in December of 2018 I got ill. When I got too sick to take care of myself my wife took me to a doc in a box kind of care center. They examined me and told me I had flu and pneumonia and they called an ambulance to take me to the hospital. I told the doctor that they didn’t need to call an ambulance, my wife was here with me and she could take me. The doctor explained that I was very ill and a good chance that I wouldn’t make it to the hospital and I wouldn’t want that to happen in my wife’s car. I swallowed hard and went in the ambulance. When I got to the hospital they treated me and wanted to admit me but there were no beds. The hospital was full of flu patients, they sent me home with medicine. They put a couple bags of IV fluids in me before they let me go. I was much better in a few days.

It was for sure a bad flu season.


10 posted on 07/14/2020 9:02:48 PM PDT by JAKraig (my religion is at least as good as yours)
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