Posted on 12/20/2022 11:40:58 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The flu season is off to an alarming start. Hospitalizations from influenza are at their highest levels in the last decade, and case counts are rising across the country. Meanwhile, vaccination rates have fallen well below historical trends. This, plus a surge of other respiratory viruses, has contributed to what some are calling a pediatric care crisis in many parts of the country.
Thankfully, some members of Congress are taking long-overdue action to improve the way our country prepares for and responds to seasonal and pandemic flu.
Public health experts typically look to the Southern Hemisphere for a signal of what America’s influenza season will entail. This past summer, Australia’s season was both early and severe: Between May and July, weekly flu cases exceeded the country’s five-year average and sick leave rose 50 percent. Young children were most at risk, with the highest case rates among those ages five through nine, followed by children ages four and younger.
Unfortunately, we are seeing the same patterns play out in the U.S. Official estimates show that in the early months of the 2022-23 flu season, there have been at least 15 million illnesses, 150,000 hospitalizations and 9,300 deaths from flu. Tragically, this includes 30 pediatric deaths.
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shut your daschole
Translation: “Everyone must lose their civil liberties so that we can be safe from viruses.”
Never let a good crisis...
The AMA? The same AMA that instituted "woke" policies for medical students and all that ridiculous stuff? Yeah, like I'm really gonna believe anything the politically motivated AMA says.
The flu virus is a direct threat to our democracy. The American people will never be safe until it is eliminated. If it saves one life, it’s worth it.
/sarc
To save the world, Congress must force all BIPOC to mask up and get vaxxed! The pureblood and drabs are on their own.
Congress never helps anything. Just get out of our lives.
We have the most corrupt government money can buy.
There is no question that immune systems have been compromised, if not neutralized, by the Fauci Flu “vaccines” and, as to children who were forced by their parents to be injected with these potentially deadly experimental concoctions, prevented from developing fully. Combined with completely ineffective forced masking and forced lockdowns, we are in the initial stages of a potential public health catastrophe, the blame for which falls on all those ego- and celebrity-driven, self-serving politicians, unelected bureaucrats and self-promoted “medical experts” who desperately need power over others.
Many of the vaccinated people that I know look like they have aged ten years in the last two. They always seem to be sick with something. I thought they were just sandbagging, but some have died, and others had to be hospitalized. I know of no legitimate vaccine that has had this kind of long-term negative effect on people and their immune systems.
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
- President Ronald Reagan
I wonder how I survived....and my family and friends survived all of these years..... thru the yearly flu seasons without the government telling us what to do. No mandates and I’m still alive.
This is tyranny and they wont stop.
“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”
George Orwell
Since Covid was such a money and power maker for them, they will use “public health” repeatedly to take more power and money in the future. Their plans succeeded beyond their expectations.
“Never let a crisis go to waste”. And, if there is not a crisis, invent one.
Congress doesn’t need to do anything
Do what your mama taught you. Wash your hands often. Avoid large crowds. Don’t spit on the sidewalk
Just no
Another twist on it: “The three most common lies are ‘the check is in the mail,’ ‘I will still respect you in the morning,’ and ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”
-Unknown
Why Congress? What is Congress supposed to do?
There is nothing so bad about a flu season that Congress cannot make even worse.
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