Posted on 03/19/2025 6:59:35 AM PDT by impimp
Grok wrote this when asked to summarize the threads over the years -
**It’s Just the Flu, Bro: year 6 (5th Anniversary, Flubros & Flubras!)**
Five years ago, on March 19, 2020, we kicked off the "It’s Just the Flu, Bro" threads on FreeRepublic. What started as a gut reaction to COVID hysteria became a battle cry for Flubros and Flubras against lockdowns and fear. Today, we celebrate Year 5—still standing, still right.
### The Start: Day 1 Prince of Space nailed it early: "It’s just the flu, bro." Symptoms matched, data didn’t justify panic, yet the "experts" screamed doom. We didn’t buy it.
### The Fight: Day 298 By January 2021, DesertRhino was calling out nursing home fiascos: "Cuomo cooked the books." Sweden’s no-lockdown success backed us up—Flubros knew the real killer was the response.
### The Challenge: Day 249 impimp’s November 2020 post dared lockdown lovers to defend their nonsense. Silence. "Masks don’t work," a Freeper roared. Science now agrees.
### The Win: Year 4 Last year, Jane Long highlighted the CDC’s retreat: "Covid’s just flu, RSV—same deal." Only 5% of "COVID deaths" were COVID alone. Vindication.
### Year 5: Still Here Today, PROCON’s mantra echoes: "Not an existential threat." Ventilators flopped, vaccines faltered, fear lost. We held the line. Ping your Flubros—share your fave posts. Five years strong: *It’s just the flu, bro.*
And now we have Trump in office and RFK in charge of HHS. Hopefully we will continue to move on from government tyranny that has been sponsored by Big Pharma.
ping
Didn’t we go from “bro” to “bruh” at some point? I seem to recall that.
I remember your threads. They sometimes got a little raucous, didn’t they?
Some had hundreds of replies early on. This was because there were a handful of freepers who defended tyranny and we had a strong group of people very keen to debate them. I think those early threads convinced many freepers who were in the fence that covid tyranny was bad.
this whole shitshow turned political right away (as everything does i suppose). defending tyranny is a good below the belt smear in a political argument. calling it ‘just the flu’ turned out to be correct but this call wasnt made on any hard data at the time.
Just a couple of days ago, I was thinking of you and the “It’s just the flu” thread.
I believe most of the Voodoo shot shills have disappeared. A few are still here spewing the same crap and some have returned with new screen names.
When enough data appeared, I agreed with the Flu Bros. About May, 2020, as I recall. Earlier, I was just scrambling for data.
Yeah, I suppose. I know of one death and one lengthy hospitalization from Influenza. I personally have seen many people die from COVID.
COVID really was different. It was bioengineered by gain of function to turn it from a nasty cold to a severe illness. Fauci and his ilk should be on trial for murder.
Covid was clearly a leaked virus by early March, 2020, based on cell phone signals around the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The desire for Pure Blood mates is already all over dating apps and social media.
Wait til the savages start farming and harvesting “Pure Bloods”.
Ya know it’s coming.
Gotta be a Zombie PockyClips movie in there somewhere.
hard data was available showing it was just the flu was available very early on…we saw death rates were very low among those who were not old or fat. In fact the death rates were lower among healthy people who had covid than those who had the flu.
That being said, those who deferred to hard data, science and the experts was destined to give you a wrong opinion. A high percentage of Freepers saw the corruption and chose to instead rely on one of the founding principles of our nation, FREEDOM, when deciding how to address this political hot potato. Others looked for comfort in the warm bosom of the government.
Kudos to the Flu Bros!
I consistently run into leftist bias on Chat gpt.
Is that your experience too?
Is there a no sign up version of Grok? Where?
Can you get anything right, Uncle Miltie?
Pardon?
UK Gov’t confirms Covid19 harmless to VAST MAJORITY of people
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg
OffGuardian
802,335 views May 14, 2020
Per chat gpt:
“ There have been claims and investigations regarding whether cell phone signal data around the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) could indicate an early virus leak, but it is important to clarify that the evidence is not conclusive, and much of the interpretation of such data remains speculative.
The idea surfaced through reports and analyses by various media outlets, particularly in 2021, suggesting that there may have been unusual disruptions or patterns in the mobile phone data near the WIV in late 2019. These claims have suggested that a decrease in cell phone activity around the facility in the fall of 2019 might indicate something unusual happening at the lab, such as an outbreak or containment issues.”
My recollection of the data was that it came out much earlier. I’ll go look into that.
Are you really not aware that
a) ChatGPT isn’t a legit source, and
b) the entire thing was a psyop with disinfo propagated to mislead the world?
Aha. Here it is, May 2020:
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