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Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 02:20 AM Mar 2021

Why The Flu Season This Winter Was Virtually Nonexistent - All In - MSNBC



There was basically no flu season in the U.S. this winter. Turns out, when you take steps to make it harder for germs to travel from person to person, you suppress infectious diseases. Aired on 03/04/2021.


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Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
1. I'm certain in wingnut fantasy world, this stat is proof that everyone who goes to the doctor
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 02:51 AM
Mar 2021

is simply diagnosed with COVID and sent on their way ... in order to collect all the big gubmint cheese that's being handed out with every COVID case that comes into their offices ... and to make IQ45 look bad.

Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)
2. A few weeks back, someone tried to convince me that people were dying of the flu
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 03:22 AM
Mar 2021

I'm assuming this was an attempt to conflate this with Covid. It's not just the virus that's killing Americans, but the ignorance - thanks to 4 years of outright lies. And too many people are stubbornly sticking with them. That said, I did get my flu shot when it was suggested at my checkup - and my first vaccine shot last week as soon as it was available to me in my area.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
3. They've been told by their masters that basically everyone who dies is being marked as a COVID death
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 06:19 AM
Mar 2021

For one reason, they think doctors and hospitals get a bunch of free government money when they report them this way ... and it's all part the Deep States/Democrat/Clinton/Soros/Gates conspiracy to make Trump look bad, wreck the economy, and whittle away their freedumbs by making them where masks ... next it'll armbands and forced vaccinations with the microchips.

I sometimes participate in a RW group on FB, but mostly just lurk, bite my tongue, and often laugh my ass off.

I mean they truly are all COMPLETELY lost in a fantasy world. I've seen it for reals, and these aren't Russians.

The fact that flu-cases are way down is just 'proving' the main tenet of their ridiculous CT ... to whit, way less people have COVID and/or are dying of COVID, than the Deep State wants everyone to think.

Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)
4. I find it absolutely mind boggling that anyone can possibly ignore or deny what's going on
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 06:44 AM
Mar 2021

Since it's not just one area or just this country, but the entire world! But then this country has been inundated by lies and bogus claims on a national level for the past several years and the gullible have fallen for them. And because of that, I hold those perpetrating the lies for the state that this country is currently in. And the sad thing is that, at this point, it's become so divisive that it's impossible to turn around.

The fact that there are those who refuse to be vaccinated puts all of us in danger. I know a very nice - though opinionated - man in his mid '80s, but we've never discussed politics. I told him that I'd gotten my first vaccine shot and asked him if he planned to be vaccinated - and he told me that his daughter is a nurse, works at the hospital, and she isn't getting the vaccine and he gets medical advice from her.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. Don't you get it? The whole WORLD wants to bring Trump down!!!11!
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 06:52 AM
Mar 2021

He's so great and powerful, and he's making America so great and powerful that the rest of the world is scared!!!1!

OF COURSE their LYING too!

Except Jyna. Jyna has like 1,000,000,000 cases and 250,000,000 deaths, and they're hiding it from teh world!11!

Rhiannon12866

(205,161 posts)
6. It really is unprecedented that anyone in our history has ever behaved in this way!
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 07:03 AM
Mar 2021

Republican or Democrat, no one who has lost an election has ever engaged in this insanity - and a couple of them, like Al Gore, had every reason to contest the results!

I have wondered so many times of what history will make of this insanity! And, after all this misinformation and division, will we ever get back to anything resembling "normal??" I'm not all that hopeful.

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
7. The stark decline in flu numbers is remarkable
Fri Mar 5, 2021, 12:22 PM
Mar 2021

But if that decline was caused by social distancing and masking then whence came the continued spread of covid-19? And no, I am not doubting what Chris Hayes proffered. But if the flu essentially died out because of social distancing, is covid-19 just that much more virulent?

The regular flu went away, despite the refusal of so many Americans to mask-up and social distance, yet those same people nevertheless caught covide-19. How and why?

Anybody? Help me understand this

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