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We wiped out the flu this year. Could we do it again?
vox ^

Posted on 06/06/2021 1:08:32 PM PDT by algore

It is hard to find anything coherent in this article, but I was able to find a few sentences.

Earlier in the pandemic, scientists were very worried about the strain on our health care systems if the flu was circulating on a large scale alongside Covid-19. The quiet flu season means there are more hospital beds and equipment available for Covid-19 patients, and the health care workers treating those patients are less strained than during a typical flu year.

Researchers don’t think the steep declines are due to more people getting flu vaccines this year.

“The vaccination is helping, but there’s absolutely no way that increased vaccination on its own is responsible for this,” Stephen Kissler, an epidemiologist at Harvard says. Yes, flu vaccine uptake is up (around 15.5 million more doses), but it’s not enough to explain what happened to the flu


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KEYWORDS: checkthosenumbers; covid; distancing; flu; masks; mouthbreathers; science; voxsux
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The real question is:

Why didn't the Chinese incubate and spread a flu virus variant last year

1 posted on 06/06/2021 1:08:32 PM PDT by algore
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To: algore

masks and lockdowns forever


2 posted on 06/06/2021 1:12:02 PM PDT by Pollard
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To: algore

Just more “Experts” who don’t have any valid “Science” to help ‘splain things?


3 posted on 06/06/2021 1:12:10 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Who thinks the influenza virus just vanished this past year? Show of hands please.

Ok all of you with hands raised go to the back of the class and wear that pointed hat.

It didnt go away and all those flu cases were coded as covid - with the $$$ incentives all respiratory illnesses were reported as covid.

4 posted on 06/06/2021 1:12:47 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: algore
We wiped out the flu this year.

Naw. Just renamed it.

5 posted on 06/06/2021 1:13:23 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: Pollard

I am just speechless at the depths of the propagandists and morons who push this BS.


6 posted on 06/06/2021 1:14:27 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: algore

“Wiped out” or miss-labeled?

Article is BS...
Sounds like Goebbels-like material...


7 posted on 06/06/2021 1:15:51 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: algore

Sure! Just circulate COVID-21.

... then COVID-22a b and c, etc.


8 posted on 06/06/2021 1:17:50 PM PDT by C210N (You can trust government or you can understand history. But you CANNOT do both)
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Effing liars


9 posted on 06/06/2021 1:17:57 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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10 posted on 06/06/2021 1:19:21 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: algore

I think the flu retreated and is reassessing future strategies and will come back and to kill us off.


11 posted on 06/06/2021 1:19:46 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I wish I was 14 again so I could ruin my life in a completely different way. I've got ideas.)
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To: corkoman

THANKYOU !!!!!!!!!


12 posted on 06/06/2021 1:20:36 PM PDT by saturn
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I think the flu retreated and is reassessing future strategies and will come back and to kill us off.

Not to worry--Fauci has another lab working on that one...
13 posted on 06/06/2021 1:21:49 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Paladin2

KILL ALL VIRUS’ KILL ALL VIRUS’ KILL ALL VIRUS’ KILL ALL VIRUS’


14 posted on 06/06/2021 1:22:20 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: musicman

That’s PLANDEMIC! To help the demons win this round!


15 posted on 06/06/2021 1:23:41 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: algore

They didn’t wipe out the flu, they renamed everything covid.


16 posted on 06/06/2021 1:25:26 PM PDT by Trillian
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Hahahahaha that was EXACTLY what I was thinking..."Show of hands please..."

They believe the flu went away...they believe the science...

17 posted on 06/06/2021 1:25:49 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Pollard
"masks and lockdowns forever"

Faucitopia.

18 posted on 06/06/2021 1:27:39 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is the last legally elected U.S. President.)
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To: algore

People who have the flu go to grocery stores and restaurants and cough all over. Nothing worse then working in an office next to the guy that coughs nonstop all over every surface. If people would just stay home (or keep their kids home) while contagious we could eliminate the flu altogether.


19 posted on 06/06/2021 1:28:07 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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To: corkoman

Well, I can tell you for a fact that those of us in real medicine, front line did not see even a fraction of the normal number of cases of the flu. AND we kept testing for it. Every day. No cases.

Why? This video has a plausible reason....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs4p-OG3RiE


20 posted on 06/06/2021 1:29:05 PM PDT by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TV)
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