The Incredible Vanishing Flu
American Thinker,
by
Brian C. Joondeph
Original Article
Posted By: Magnante,
5/6/2021 4:11:20 AM
Seasonal influenza, also known as “the flu,” visits America every year, similar to tornados, thunderstorms, heat waves, and snowstorms. As tracked by the CDC, over the past decade symptomatic flu cases ranged from 9 to 45 million cases per year in the US. Hospitalizations varied from 140 to 810 thousand, and deaths from 12 to 61 thousand, depending on the particular year, strain of influenza, and effectiveness of the vaccine.
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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/6/2021 5:11:41 AM (No. 776700)
The flu has not disappeared. They just changed the name to covid.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 5/6/2021 6:22:41 AM (No. 776722)
The regular Flu was probably just swept under the Kung Flu rug.....if it looks like the flu, walks like the flu and quacks like the flu, then it’s just gotta be the Kung Flu.......good way to pad your numbers upward.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Rinktum 5/6/2021 6:23:32 AM (No. 776723)
#1, They did the old switcheroo which democrats have perfected. Who in their right mind would trust any numbers coming out of government agencies? The distrust of the government is a big reason why people will not take the vaccine either. People do not trust the government and rightly so.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
privateer 5/6/2021 7:13:04 AM (No. 776751)
I am sick and tired of 'Communists Dictating Conditions'...CDC. Why is it that every government agency starts out with a good and useful purpose, then ends up as a megalomaniac behemoth that can't be resisted?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/6/2021 7:55:16 AM (No. 776786)
There will be a report coming out that states how effective the masks and lockdowns were against the flu. Bad government never admits mistakes.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ControlFreak 5/6/2021 8:26:58 AM (No. 776829)
Maybe it’s because people are washing their hands more often.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
homefry 5/6/2021 8:32:10 AM (No. 776836)
Reply 1 - Posted by: stablemoney 5/6/2021 5:11:41 AM (No. 776700)
The flu has not disappeared. They just changed the name to covid.
SO TRUE, it needed to be repeated.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Redbone 5/6/2021 8:46:52 AM (No. 776848)
Both sides are getting stupid. Yes flu cases are being recorded as Covid. But in the past people with colds and the flu went to work instead of using leave, they used public transportation and flew on planes. They went shopping. All that has changed for the better.
I caught the swine flu when going on vacation one year from a jerk next to me on the plane who was catatonic. I hope that we make taking public transportation while sick a crime.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
msjena 5/6/2021 8:54:14 AM (No. 776858)
#6, bingo. Handwashing has long been known to be effective against colds and flu. I read that the China virus, unlike the common cold, is spread through much smaller droplets that are airborne for a for a fairly long time before dissipating. That is why handwashing and surface sanitizing is less effective against it than it is against other viral infections.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 5/6/2021 9:07:14 AM (No. 776867)
The Fauci and CDC moved the influenza cases to the panicdemic virus statistics to inflate the numbers as the U.S. seeks reparations from China for releasing the engineered virus. Hey, if people can think wearing masks prevent inhalation of a virus I can have my fantasy.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 5/6/2021 9:07:58 AM (No. 776869)
Right #5 same is true of doctors. Ever heard a doctor say “sorry, I was wrong” ?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/6/2021 9:25:21 AM (No. 776895)
i was thinking, with all the Covid cases popping up in the migrants at the southern border, that, MIRACULOUSLY, we will read that INFLUENZA has arisen from the dead. More Covid Cookin' the Books!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 5/6/2021 9:25:45 AM (No. 776896)
#4 asks: "Why is it that every government agency starts out with a good and useful purpose, then ends up as a megalomaniac behemoth that can't be resisted?"
Here is what I have posted on this forum - - many, many times: "Any institution or organization which does not have to generate a profit in order to continue existing - - will eventually be taken over by communists."
Nothing in the world can be truer than what I just wrote - - and I will continue to write - - just to refresh everyone else's memories.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/6/2021 9:57:27 AM (No. 776940)
Well #8 - I rode the DC/MD/VA subway system for almost 25 years: winter, spring summer and fall. During am/pm rush hours, packed in like sardines, SRO. Winter months - riders were coughing, sneezing, etc and barely able to move an arm or hand to cover a cough or sneeze. No PSAs about wearing masks, wishing hands, etc. Never required to wear a mask until this past year. Filthy train cars probably never properly cleaned and disinfected until this past year. No sanitizer available in train cars or stations and I never got sick. But I agree, if you're sick and can take sick leave - just stay home.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/6/2021 10:14:08 AM (No. 776958)
Americans failed every civics test in the past years. COVIDS is just the latest example. It started with the hysteria of bodies stacked along the streets in China and Italy, the claims that the virus was biological warfare agents, the closing of borders, screams of xenophobia and all the rest. Orxon Welles could have written the script. And after an injection of hysteria, the US Government took over, starting with PDT putting Fauci and Birx out there as his front people. From that point on it was "trust the experts" as the craziness documented in the article outlines.
If questions were asked they were drowned in a sea of propaganda and pop culture. Masks were cool, saving your grandmother from my virus. Lockdown orders came fast and furious from all sides. Businesses, particularly family businesses, were destroyed as these persisted. Landlords had their property "taken" with no eviction orders. And few squawked; none effectively. The public and its elected officials took a hike, cowed by the "experts" and "science."
And here we are, still mired in the morass of vaccines, masks, social distancing, and propaganda. A few places have stepped up, but they're news because they are actually few. "Superspreader" events include family picnics, open to raid by the authorities in places...for our own good.
Americans deserve an "F" in their civics. They are losing by surrender their personal sovereignty and liberty. Have been for years.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Zigrid 5/6/2021 10:50:14 AM (No. 777006)
Looks like the medical community... along with Washington... could make more money on the wuhan virus vaccines than the flu vaccines....so the follow the money game is in play...now that I've had the Trump Moderna shots... I wonder what I should do this fall...I'll get back to you....
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/6/2021 10:55:19 AM (No. 777009)
If the truth about COVID is ever written, and it won't be, it will prove to have been the most over-blown, over-hyped, politically and ideologically-motivated "medical crisis" crock in the history of humanity.
Just look at who benefited.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
jacksin5 5/6/2021 11:07:07 AM (No. 777027)
Flu cases dropped due to school closures. Parents, due to having to work, are prone to send the kids to school when sick, turning the schools into a petri dish.
I used to do work in schools as an outside contractor, and between there and daycare centers I could not avoid the disease du jour.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
fca 5/6/2021 2:02:06 PM (No. 777227)
One hour after Biden was installed by the deep state, they changed covid cycle testing criteria from from 40 to 20.. which resulted in large reductions in the false positive cases..
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
DVC 5/6/2021 2:47:40 PM (No. 777265)
#1 nails it. PERHAPS there is slightly less flu due to staying home, hand washing, etc but the primary thing is rolling all influenza symptoms into Wuhan flu.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 5/6/2021 5:18:37 PM (No. 777357)
"he pore size in standard surgical masks is 300 nm to 10,000 nm, far larger than either virus, meaning masks cannot explain the discrepancy. Masks don’t stop either virus, which is why we never masked up during past flu pandemics. Unless the masks contain a pore bouncer, letting in only COVID but telling influenza to get lost."
Finally!!! Someone is saying what we have been saying all year! Where are the flu deaths? Usually about 60,000 a year. Where are the pneumonia deaths? Someone on this thread said that the Congressman that died in Texas had lung cancer for 2 years. Did anyone know that before CDC said he died of CoVID? Nooooo, because they want to scarrre us! To control us!
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