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Former FDA chief predicts flu season will be a ‘whopper’
NY Post ^ | 09/22/2021 | Yaron Steinbuch

Posted on 09/22/2021 9:28:00 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned Wednesday that “we’re in for a whopper” of a flu season due to a lack of immunity in the US population.

Gottlieb, who helmed the FDA under President Donald Trump and serves on Pfizer’s board of directors, made the chilling prediction during an interview on CNBC about workplace safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“We haven’t seen a flu season last year — we’re in for a whopper because we haven’t put immunity into the population in at least one and maybe now two years. When the flu does come back, and it will come back, it’s going to come back very aggressively,” he said.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Break out the never ending mask mandates!


21 posted on 09/22/2021 9:41:23 AM PDT by Codeflier (Please stop calling these violent totalitarian collectivist Democrats, liberals. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

At some point they have to admit that the ‘emergency’ aspect of COVID is over. That millions of COVID ‘tests’ have really just detected the flu means this is just greasing the rails for a transition from ‘COVID cases’ to ‘flu cases’.

It’s hard to reconcile packed football venues and then have kids being masked at school.

It’s over and they know it. The only emergency was really for older people with comorbidities. There was never an *emergency* for the ‘younger’ crowd.


22 posted on 09/22/2021 9:50:05 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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23 posted on 09/22/2021 9:51:02 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I took a look at Australia’s 2021 flu season (which is ending now) data, and they had an even lighter flu season than their record lows in 2020. So, we’ll see about ours, but if Australia’s was weak, then maybe ours will be too.


24 posted on 09/22/2021 9:56:51 AM PDT by agatheringstorm
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“...serves on Pfizer’s board of directors...”

Automatic disqualifier.


25 posted on 09/22/2021 9:57:30 AM PDT by ameribbean expat (Don't blame others for the road you're on. That's your own asphalt.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I was warned about the anticipated early and severe flu season a few weeks ago, and got vaccinated last week.

“Forewarned is forearmed!!!!”


26 posted on 09/22/2021 10:01:34 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry to say but a lot of vaccinated people are going to die of the seasonal flu right on schedule. The govt always telegraph’s what’s coming. The vaccinated have chosen poorly.


27 posted on 09/22/2021 10:03:38 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Obadiah

Big Pharma wants mandated Covid shots and Flu shots now—no way they are gonna leave any pennies on the table.


28 posted on 09/22/2021 10:04:20 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
"I thought there was zero flu in 2020 because of masking.... Or is he trying to say lockdowns killed our immunity?"

Depends on what narrative they're trying to push - they can go either way, that's the cute thing about controlling the narrative.

29 posted on 09/22/2021 10:05:12 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The flu will be the same as last year.

Only the bogus PCR tests allowed the panic mongers to lie about which flu was present.

30 posted on 09/22/2021 10:06:29 AM PDT by G Larry (Those destroying the Constitution must demonize those who would defend it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

After the US Government forces vaccines that wipe out our immune system…NO SHIITE!!


31 posted on 09/22/2021 10:07:20 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I thought Covid killed the flu...?


32 posted on 09/22/2021 10:09:45 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I had a flu shot in 2019, 2020 and this year.


33 posted on 09/22/2021 10:11:57 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Fear porn….seems the elites will be releasing all awful, horrible news more frequently since we’re becoming desensitized. When you know a better place awaits, this doesn’t work and life goes on.


34 posted on 09/22/2021 10:13:24 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Since about 2010, excluding last year of course, the annual average number of influenza cases in the U.S. has been in the 30,000,000 (with an M) neighborhood.


35 posted on 09/22/2021 10:15:02 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Got my seasonal flu shot back on 9-6-2021.

PLUS.

The Antibiotic Vitamin (Antiviral Too)

36 posted on 09/22/2021 10:16:03 AM PDT by blam
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To: Obadiah
And every case of flu will be officially tagged as Covid.

Correct. The typical rising hospitalizations and 30,000 to 70,000 deaths each year from seasonal flu will almost all be tagged as covid. Or they may be double-counted as both covid and flu. Either way, the deaths and hospital case numbers will be used as further justification to impose draconian, un-Constitutional measures on the un-vaccinated. Those currently "fully vaccinated" will find themselves in the same bucket as booster shots will be required in order to regain your "fully vaccinated" social status. Who knows, while they're at it they may start trying to make flu-shots mandatory too. They're on a roll and the sheeple are stampeding towards tyranny so...

37 posted on 09/22/2021 10:21:56 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Biden/Harris - illegitimate and everyone knows it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
There is no more “flu” there is only Covid in it's multiple evolution's
38 posted on 09/22/2021 10:23:20 AM PDT by billyboy15
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t know about this. The magic Wuhanic Plague Coronavirus removed the Flu completely in the winters of 2020 and 2021. The government data says so.


39 posted on 09/22/2021 10:23:57 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d have to agree, given the law of averages and that we had NO flu cases last year.


40 posted on 09/22/2021 10:24:06 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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