This year, “flu activity is unusually low at this time” according to CDC surveillance. Since late September 2020, they recorded only about 2000 cases, a minute fraction of the tens of millions of cases in past years.
The CDC wouldn’t play numbers games like that would they? Sure they would. The CDC changed its (PCR) cycle threshold for “vaccine breakthrough cases,” those cases occurring post vaccination, to 28, far below that for normal cases of 40 or higher, to reduce COVID cases numbers after the vaccine. Imagine if they had done that last year. COVID cases numbers would resemble that of a bad flu season.
Deaths are harder to measure since the CDC conveniently changed how deaths are characterized this past year. Instead of pneumonia, influenza, and COVID being in separate categories, now it’s called PIC, lumping the three entities together.
ht/ lurker
I’m so tired of this shit
Another govt agency to be eliminated Day One by DeSantis.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2021/05/06/clean-house-in-2025-n2588969
@GITMO Uh huh, why do you believe these people? You don’t think that he might just be telling you what he thinks you want to hear? So that, you will donate your already overly taxed income to his presidential campaign?
Anyone who believes that DeSantis or any other politician is not all about corporate centralized government you’re lying to yourself. These politicians do not represent you.
I saw a conversation on another forum; someone made the comment about how the flu was unheard of anymore. Another person who was a “follow the science” type responded with “because everyone is wearing masks, ” etc., taking a swipe at those “anti-maskers.”
I read the article at the link and it does address this issue. Why would masks make the flu virtually disappear but not Covid?
Makes you wonder what sort of covid hoodoo is going on in India right now.
“India is one of the major global suppliers of hydroxychloroquine API and its formulations, producing almost 70 percent of the world’s HCQ. It imports raw materials from China and Hungary. The export of HCQ increased dramatically in the last year…”
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hydroxychloroquine-sees-a-drop-in-demand-and-price-says-beroe-inc-301274622.html
And remember, the world’s second largest manufacturing plant for the precursor to HCQ was destroyed in a mysterious explosion. It was in Taiwan. I wonder where the world’s largest manufacturing plant for the precursor to HCQ is located. I bet it is—or was— in India or China.
It was obvious to me in February of 2020
Been singing this song for over a year…
I thought the average flu season has 30 to 40 million cases, 40 million being a bad flu season.
Tallying 1 year of the coof, there were less than 29 million cases.
Even with high cycle threshold, the coof wasn’t even as bad as a good flu season.
PCR cycle threshold. The variable X-factor in the so-called science of covid. Forget the official “case” count. Hell, forget that a case isn’t even defined. Forget that a positive PCR result is nothing if the person has no symptoms… so said the PCR inventor (dead pre-covid) when talking about the PCR process, but forget it anyway. Forget the official death count unless you can prove that covid pushed That Guy off the ladder to his death. Yes, covid is real, but so is swine and sars and the flu. I’ve taken off my mask and have yet to be challenged. Perhaps it’s that i’m 6’3″ @ 225 and perpetually in a bad mood. Two of the stores i visit do play their “we expect everyone to do their part and wear a mask” message over their sound system while i walk the aisles. I would close with my standard end, but BFH has asked that we, probably meaning me, to ease up on the &!#}# words.
I (retired lab tech) suspect that the rapid antigen tests for covid are cross reacting with proteins on the flu virus, causing many false positive covid tests. When the doctors see a patient with covid like symptoms, they order a covid test, and when it comes back posive, they stop there. So, many positive covid tests, hardly any positive flu tests.
The Left, and a fair amount on the Right, weaponized covid to oppose Trump. For whatever reason, they now can’t get away from it.
As a sidebar, i saw a great bumper sticker today if a smiling Trump next to the words “Miss me yet?” Perfect!