[fr_freak]

Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 are as similar to one another as humans and snails. They aren't even in the same phylum. There is zero chance of any testing failing to distinguish between the two.

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.

[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.