The Flu Is FAR WORSE Than We’re Being Told: Tens Of Thousands Of Americans Are DYING

The Burning Platform ^ | 1-27-2018 | Cat Ellis

[blam]

We all know that this year’s flu season is bad. I have been pouring over numbers and reports over the past few days, and it’s actually even worse than we’re hearing about. Tens of thousands of Americans are dying. It’s now worse than the 2009 swine flu outbreak and is on track with the 2014-15 strain. And it’s not showing any signs of slowing down.

Despite this, the media is downplaying the severity of the flu and the government makes the statistics pretty difficult to find. Are they trying to avoid a panic? Do they know something we don’t?

Here’s what you need to know about why this year’s flu is so dangerous.

This Year’s Flu Strain Is More Deadly

The dominant Influenza strain this year is H3N2. This particular strain has a history of causing more hospitalizations and more deaths. According to the CDC:

In the past, H3N2-predominant seasons have been associated with more severe illness and higher mortality, especially in older people and young children, relative to H1N1- or B-predominant seasons. Between 1976 and 2007, for example, CDC estimates that an average of 28,909 people died from flu during H3N2 seasons, compared to 10,648 people during non-H3N2 predominant years.

That’s a difference of 18,261 adults each year. And that’s in a good year.

In addition to H3N2 producing a more serious infection in general, this year’s particular H3N2 influenza virus is particularly virulent. The number of deaths due to influenza or complications to the flu, such as pneumonia (a secondary bacterial infection following influenza), varies from year to year.

An August 27, 2010 MMWR report entitled “Thompson MG et al. Updated Estimates of Mortality Associated with Seasonal Influenza through the 2006-2007 Influenza Season. MMWR 2010; 59(33): 1057-1062.,” provided estimates of the range of flu-associated deaths

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[blam]

Thanks for posting that.

People taking high doses of vitamin D should be taking K2 also. See the info in post 128.

[Alas Babylon!]

Just be careful!

I know you are, Bill.

However, wild hemlock, or pokeweed, here in the South have very similar looking berries. The leaf on pokeweed is much bigger and broader. If you consume pokeweed berries, you will die.

Pokeweed berries:

[blam]

"Just an additional note: There are two kinds of Vitamin K2: K2-MK4 and K2-MK7. It’s the K2-MK7 that works well with Vitamin D3."

Thanks. I just looked at my bottle of K2 and (fortuitously) have MK7.

[blam]

"I sit here with my tin foil hat on and say that those in the globalist camp and the WHO cannot be counted out of this. By any means necessary, a military tactic of the British were to hand out to the American Indians blankets from small pox victims"

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[blam]

"Schools are being closed to de-germ clean them like they do cruise ships after a outbreak of the Norwalk virus."

Some schools closed in my area too. All being disinfected.

[blam]

"However, wild hemlock, or pokeweed, here in the South have very similar looking berries. The leaf on pokeweed is much bigger and broader. If you consume pokeweed berries, you will die."

Thanks. I know about 'Polk Salad' and do know the difference between the two. They do grow in close proximity on my trails.

[Terry Mross]

I take all kinds of vitamins, don’t smoke, took the shot and still got it. Doc told me there are something like 29 strains but the shot only covers 4. But like you, I refused to take it for years because it gave me a bad case of the flu everytime. But once I passed 65 I decided I’d better stop taking the chance. I do believe this is going to be the worse year since 1918 mostly because of open borders and wide open immigration.

[Charles Martel]

I think I heard “Baby Can You Dig Your Man” on the radio today.

That miniseries intro was particularly memorable, with the Blue Oyster Cult music swelling as the camera pans in on the guard shack.

[Black Agnes]

Yikes. I’d definitely ask the doctor about taking K if I were you.

My dad was on warfarin for a while and his doctor did stuff to adjust his dose based on INR vs. what he ate (ie, greens).

I have no idea about eliquis.

[Black Agnes]

We actually make sure we get both the MK4 and MK7 varieties. They are both bioactive and have slightly different modes of action.

FWIW I think it’s the MK7 that’s worked against the cavities.

[Black Agnes]

Usually we take 10K IU of D3 during cold/flu season and 5K IU during the summer.

This year we ran out at the end of the summer and just managed to totally forget to reorder it.

We won’t be doing that again.

And yes, when we got out of the doctor’s office we went by Walgreens and got more right then. We took 50K IU when we got home and 10K IU a couple of times the next day. I continued to take the D3 for a week or so afterward. I am the sickliest one in the house and any chest congestion tends to turn to pneumonia for me.

We started the D3 on a Tuesday afternoon. By Thursday morning we had no fever or aches at all.

We continue to take 10K IU daily for now. Plus our K supplement.

[Black Agnes]

I’ve tried to encourage the niece to take D3 since she works with the public. To no avail. It’s ‘OTC supplement voodoo’ (her words).

[KosmicKitty]

The 100 Year Spanish Flu?

[Balding_Eagle]

What’s IU?

[Black Agnes]

International Unit.

It’s a dose measurement.

Most D3 capsules are 5000 IU each.

Occasionally you can find other dosages.

[RebelTXRose]

You are right to wait! Our doctor told my husband that he probably caught it IN THEIR WAITING ROOM when he was there a couple of weeks ago for a sinus infection. We are taking extra Vitamin D.

[chris37]

I have never even so much as seen an actual Elderberry in the wild or in a store, so I have never personally eaten one.

My mom, who is big on alternative health, educated me about Sambucs a number of years ago.

I thought it was delicious, and it made me not sick any more rather quickly. This stuff works, I swear by it. Maybe it saved my life this time, I don’t know, because this sickness I have was on its way into my chest the night i got my box of medicine, and the next day it was no longer.

Dunno if it would have killed me, probably not, but who knows.

What I did when it got a bit warmer around here was go outside in the backyard with the shepherds, and take my shirt off, and let magnificent warm sun blast my upper body. Vitamin D, baby! WOOOO! I did that 3 times in a row before the weather turned to crap again.

I’m feeling pretty darn good this morning. ‘Bout 85% better, but I can still taste some cold in the back of my throat, so vaporizer is running, and I just took some more Sambucus.

[logi_cal869]

Keys?

[SamAdams76]

That was a decent mini-series but nothing will ever beat reading the book, which I have read several times over the decades. I recommend the 1,000+ page unabridged version as the popular novel was shortened considerably by King's publishers at the time.

I wish the author wasn't such a jackass politically but at least I can separate the art from the man. Such as with Wagner (music) and Tarantino (film). You can be a contemptible human being yet still put out good art.

[blam]

"What I did when it got a bit warmer around here was go outside in the backyard with the shepherds, and take my shirt off, and let magnificent warm sun blast my upper body. Vitamin D, baby! WOOOO!"

When I was younger I often spent two weeks at Christmas on the Yucatan Peninsula touring the ruins. At the time, I believed that I was treating myself of SAD with a 'sunshine therapy.'

Turns out I probably was because of a Vitimin D deficiency....now that I take daily doses of vitamin D, no SAD problems. So.....many benefits of taking vitamin D.

BTW, lack of vitamin D is why people turned 'White'.