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We wiped out the flu this year. Could we do it again?
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Posted on 06/06/2021 1:08:32 PM PDT by algore

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To: bagster

If the media ignores it, it didn’t happen... VKind of like how they are reopening businesses and the public in general based on COVID “case” numbers are pretty much the same as when they locked everything down.


81 posted on 06/06/2021 4:06:30 PM PDT by JWNM
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To: JWNM
If the media ignores it, it didn’t happen... VKind of like how they are reopening businesses and the public in general based on COVID “case” numbers are pretty much the same as when they locked everything down.

Who didn't see that coming?

Funny how an election can cure a pandemic.

Its all political theater. All of it.


82 posted on 06/06/2021 4:16:21 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: familyop
I’m still living, so death is a myth!

Not every story has a happy ending.

#GrimmsFairyTale


83 posted on 06/06/2021 4:18:04 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Pollard

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

YES WE CAN!!
All we need to do is continue to lie about a person’s illness and call everything covad or as it should be known as the chinese wuhon virus.


84 posted on 06/06/2021 4:36:43 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: Mr. Jeeves
I like that..."science-y". I have often assigned to the Leftists (and their liberal enablers) the principles outlined in Orwell's 1984, specifically their propensity for "Doublethink":

Doublethink: a simultaneous belief in two contradictory ideas

85 posted on 06/06/2021 5:06:30 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: musicman

OOPS!


86 posted on 06/06/2021 6:31:03 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U
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To: bagster
"“We have no idea how obliterating the flu for an entire year affects its evolution,” Kissler says. That might make it harder for vaccine developers to pick the right strains for next year’s vaccines.

“We don’t know if it’s going to be easier to predict next year’s flu strain, because it hasn’t been spreading as much. Or if it’s going to be a lot harder, because it’s gone through this really tight what we call an evolutionary bottleneck.”

Here’s what we do know: We can beat back the flu with our behavior. Covid-19, in part, “has shown us how to do it,” Kissler says."

What this preposterous statement is saying is that even though we can smell the rotting garbage when the garbage can cover is removed, the garbage does not stink and will not rot if we leave the cover on ...

Goebbels was a master at this kind of propaganda BS...

87 posted on 06/06/2021 8:15:58 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: algore

Sure - I suppose we could do it again if we wanted to engage in social distancing all the time, never eat at restaurants dining in, always wear masks / protective gear, overload on hand sanitizer, be barred from entering buildings if you have even minor symptoms of any illness that could be remotely possible to be the cold or flu, have the cleaning crews working around the clock in every building instead of just once a day dousing everything in heavy disinfectants in an ongoing basis, etc. like we did the past year.

Otherwise...no.


88 posted on 06/06/2021 8:59:42 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: SuperLuminal
Oh, snap.

That'll teach me to read the article. I swear I thought this article was sarcastically saying 'we wiped out the flu' but we really just relabeled it the covid.

Apologies.

It truly is Goebells like propaganda.


89 posted on 06/06/2021 9:06:03 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: SuperLuminal
Oh, snap.

That'll teach me to read the article. I swear I thought this article was sarcastically saying 'we wiped out the flu' but we really just relabeled it the covid.

Apologies.

It truly is Goebells like propaganda.


90 posted on 06/06/2021 9:08:34 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: algore

turns out if you dont actually test for it, you dont ever actually know you have it....


91 posted on 06/07/2021 5:32:21 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: JennysCool
Naw. Just renamed it.

Bingo. Just shoveled people infected with this nasty flu into nursing homes and assisted living facilities, stirred in heavy doses of media hysteria, and voila! PANDEMIC!

92 posted on 06/07/2021 5:45:33 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: bunkerhill7

What’s funny is that was a SImpsons episode where it turns out Mr. Burns was invincible because he had so many disease in him all at the same time, competing for dominance, so that none of them could kill him.


93 posted on 06/07/2021 11:14:53 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!s)
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To: MrRelevant

Well the problem with that reasoning is that any illness needs a diagnosis to understand what it is you are sick with, ANY ILLNESS, whether it’s cancer or the flu.


94 posted on 06/07/2021 11:16:14 PM PDT by Morpheus2009 (If you want me to be afraid, then be consistent in your logic, standards, and your lies!s)
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