The Pandemic Broke the Flu

The Atlantic, via msn ^ | 2/4/2021 | Katherine J. Wu

[afchief]

Covid is a LIE, it is a HOAX, it is the FLU!!!!!!!

What happened to “flu season?” In the age of COVID, “the flu” has been reclassified as coronavirus, says epidemiologist

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-02-03-new-flu-season-covid-is-the-flu-reclassified.html

[familyop]

It’s somewhat hard to catch the flu when wearing a mask and keeping your distance from other shoppers.

[familyop]

Not to mention fewer people flying back and forth to and from China.

[familyop]

I did catch a couple of mild colds early last year. At least some colds are more contagious than flus. Looks like we cut the flus off for the most part somewhere between here and the other side of the planet.

[logi_cal869]

You undermine the totality of your statements with “gold standard” and “confirmed” referencing PCR testing.

It has already been firmly established that,

1. PCR testing is NOT a diagnostic tool for infection,
2. PCR tests trigger positive on dead virus,
3. PCR tests have been manipulated by raising the cycle threshold, resulting in high numbers of positive tests,
4. PCR positive tests have been used to confer a ‘COVID’ cause of death in the absence of illness,
5. PCR tests remain preeminent only because they demonstrate results which can be used to promote the crisis.

The next tests - saliva or otherwise - will demonstrate a contradiction that escapes rational explanation and, thusly, will be tightly controlled until such a time their results are politically viable.

[Svartalfiar]

I gotthe impression that the other poster was referring to clinical diagnoses, rather than actual testing. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I would imagine that most flu cases, pre-COVID, were diagnosed clinically rather than involving any testing. If so, clinical diagnoses could have shifted to the assumption of COVID rather than the flu.

Many yes, but if you dig into CDC's data from years prior, you'll find that out of the flu samples actually tested, something like 20% are positive for influenza. So out of cases that are clinically diagnosed as flu, and tested, only 20% are actually the flu. So the rest probably follow that same pattern, or an even lower percentage. Influenza isn't nearly as widespread as Big Brother scares you with. In fact, those "60M" flu deaths are actually only about 2-3M with confirmed testing for influenza. The rest are "influenza-like illnesses" and CDC guesswork formula bogus crap to inflate the number to scare people.

[Svartalfiar]

It’s somewhat hard to catch the flu when wearing a mask and keeping your distance from other shoppers.

Masks block the flu about as effectively as they block coronaviri, which is about as effectively as they block air.

Influenza is most likely been killed off by no one going out in groups or meeting strangers or doing anything really. Zero contact is the most effective transmission prevention measure that anyone's taken. Course, that has plenty of other much worse consequences, but now that the Dems are in charge, we certainly don't want to scare anyone with those!