Here's a graph of from last March comparing this year with recent past years. I don't know how accurate it is or was.
Posted on 05/13/2020 7:36:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
There has been nothing in the media about this.
...the antibodies testing are the only true test of the numbers and even those are not “real”...
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South Korea has stated the tests are over-sensitive and are recording positives on the basis of detectable viral fragments with no infectablity.
... the flu numbers would be down.
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I believe that is what alerted the epidemiologists to the fraudulent nature of the numbers. Evidently, flu numbers are nearly non-existent and are being included in COVID stats.
...It is easy to shut off utilities in big cities and the lemmings will toe the line.
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Properties in rural areas that we looked at over the past 6 weeks were going contingent in days. Many bought sight unseen over the internet.(!) The realtors we spoke with said most were urbanites/suburbanites escaping the cities. Many properties went back on market within days/weeks as mortgages are difficult in this environment. Proof of one year’s payments is required. We bought for cash and we had to provide the proof we actually had the cash to close.
OTOH, it will be a real wake up call for those used to municipal hookups to adjust to septic and well.
I give most of them a few months before they sell out and move back to *civilization*.
Especially when the locals shun them for trying to bring their lack of morals and expectations of always getting their way.
Oh and they don’t like guns and hunting. So leave!!
-20 in the winter and a wood stove is also a deterrent. Sadly there are locals who want California prices for inland Pacific North West Properties. I am glad I got in when I did, 18 years ago, paid cash, and in am heaven.
Their definition of civilization. Here we help each other even if we do not like each other. Is what neighbors do.
Gunner
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
and
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
(A “middle figure” for flu usually turns out to be about right - I’d guess 40k this “flu year”.)
Note particularly the crash in confirmed flu cases, but a big spike in overall flu and pneumonia mortality (which includes CV-19).
The flu cases crash is either:
A) Mitigation
or
B) Flu was crashing anyway, therefor the effect of mitigation is difficult to determine (tho’ it IS a pretty sharp crash).
or
C) Some of both A and B.
In any event, COVID-19 was most certainly NOT behaving like flu in the same time period. This is partially because by early March, one can assume over 1/2 the US population had flu antibodies either from the vaccine or recovery from illness. COVID-19, who (not “WHO”) knows? Mild or asymptomatic cases, which are the vast majority, may not even confer much if any useful / lasting immunity. Cold coronaviruses may give some clues, here.
Interesting, and matches up, sort of, with the data in the links in my post #27.
Of note also is the clear effect of the Christmas season, most years.
They aren't really measuring Flu deaths accurately, so they are inordinately low.
Other source says 6,083 this year.
That is NOT a path to 40K.
Excellent question g Larry!
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