Posted on 12/21/2020 1:00:29 AM PST by RandFan
@RealWayneRoot
Funny how mainstream media reports in big headlines “Covid cases” but there’s no flu this flu season? Where did old fashioned flu go? It disappeared? Used to kill 50k to 80k per year with no headlines, no panic, no lockdowns, no businesses closed. Now wrapped into COVID.
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Their is 666 cases of Influenza in the USA right now.
Explain that.
No. of specimens tested
29,578
286,984
No. of positive specimens (%) 75 (0.3%) 666 (0.2%)
Positive specimens by type
Influenza A 13 (17.3%) 273 (41.0%)
Influenza B 62 (82.7%) 393 (59.0%)
Covid killed the flu.
1st song on MTV.
You are ageing yourself.
LOL. Yep I guess so. But so are you. If you're ever in Vegas, let me know. I'll buy you a beer or 4.
There’s nothing to explain. Flu season peaks at different times each year. Sometimes as late as March. This is normal. You’re creating a conspiracy out of normality.
Repeating the same nonsense doesn’t make it less false.
HOORAY WAR
I used to live off Twain back in the day. Ford Aerospace.
You had a new road headed north.
I was secret guy. Riviera had the best book in town. :)
I’m out in Pahrump.
The MOST EVIL pre-meditated hoax ever perpetrated on civilization.
Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength. - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
(and in this interconnected communication age???...amazing)
You have less than 700 out of 331 million have flu.
You are not very well with math.
I take it you are young and your teachers sucked.
“I’m out in Pahrump.”
My sis is in Kingman. Next time I fly into Vegas and she picks me up, I’ll buy U a beer. : )
She lived in Vegas for 20 years, as did my parents (RIP). She drove truck at UPS.
That’s weird. My Covid test came back positive and I have no fever.
It's a deal!
Oh heck yea I’ll meet up with you.
I had to shoot down our guys out of Tonopah.
That damn bus had no AC. I learned some serious cards from the Station House though.
I expected the High Plains Drifter to walk in at any time.
Good Memories
Your statements - which I will stipulate is true - only support the Mr. Root's premise that concerns over Covid are overblown and/or figures are inflated.
The point is: The public perception is being manipulated to make Covid look like the worst scourge to strike Mankind since the Black Plague. Illnesses / deaths caused by the flu or other, similar infectious diseases are being attributed to Covid, through deliberately misleading reporting (by suppressing comorbidities; hyping Covid; downplaying everything else).
Regards,
You would be wrong. We have not seen a lot of flu yet abs we do test for it. It may either be a mild season or it may be too early. Yes there is a lot of hysteria out there but yes covid is real and filling our hospitals and ICUs. other can be true.
CDC admitted weeks ago that the common cold gives a positive reading on a covid test.
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