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by J.D. Heyes
February 03, 2021
from
PandemicNews Website
Italian version
A few months ago, some infectious disease experts began warning that
it would extremely difficult, as the
COVID-19 'pandemic' lingered into
the fall, for frontline healthcare providers to determine if
sickness was due to the novel coronavirus or 'good,
old-fashioned influenza'...
The reason, they said, is that in many respects,
flu symptoms could
and would mimic COVID-19 symptoms...
But according to one
epidemiologist, that problem has been solved by the 'powers
that be':
Simply
reclassify flu cases as COVID-19 illnesses - that
way, "flu cases" will go down this year while
Joe Biden's authoritarian
Democrats get to continue 'justifying' perpetual
lockdowns and theft of our
liberty and freedom.
Per
Just the News:
Rates of influenza
have remained persistently low through late 2020 and into 2021,
cratering from levels a year ago and raising the puzzling
specter of sharply reduced influenza transmission rates even as
positive
tests for COVID-19 have
shattered numerous records over the last several weeks...
Where have all
the flu cases gone?
Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski thinks he can answer the
riddle.
"Influenza has been
renamed COVID in large part," Wittkowski, the former head
of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at
Rockefeller University, told the outlet.
"There may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the
'presumed COVID' category of people who have COVID symptoms
(which Influenza symptoms can be mistaken for), but are not
tested for SARS RNA," he added.
Such patients, he
explained,
"also may have some
SARS RNA sitting in their nose while being infected with
Influenza, in which case the influenza would be 'confirmed' to
be COVID."
Covid-19 is Not
Dangerous
'Unless You Have
Age-related Severe Comorbidities'
Epidemiologist
Knut Wittkowski
You know, like when you
die from a gunshot wound or a car accident but just happen to test
positive for the novel coronavirus, it's listed as a
COVID death...
But don't just take our word for it or that of Wittkowski:
the government's own
data shows that something fishy is going on, which has been par
for the course when it comes to misrepresenting the threat of
this virus.
According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC)
recent weekly influenza surveillance tracker, cumulative
positive flu rates from late September to mid-December only stands
at 0.2 percent, according to clinical labs that test for the virus.
That compares to last
year's very typical 8.7 percent cumulative.
Weekly comparisons of data from last year and this year show an even
starker difference:
A year ago this week,
the positive flu rate was 22 percent, but this year it's just
0.1 percent.
Some have attempted to
explain the humongous difference in flu infections by
claiming that mask-wearing, social distancing, and even lockdowns
are making the difference.
Timothy Sly, an epidemiology professor at Ryerson University
in Toronto, told the outlet that,
"the reduced
incidence of seasonal influenza is almost certainly due to the
protection that a large proportion of the population has been
using for many months."
Those measures, he said,
are,
"designed to be
effective against any airborne respiratory virus."
And Holden Maecker,
a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University,
agreed.
"I feel pretty
confident that the COVID-19 mitigation measures have caused the
reduction in flu cases this year," he told Just the News.
"Masks, social
distancing, and hand washing are all effective counter-measures
against colds and flu."
Really...?
That's just
BS:
if that were true,
then COVID cases wouldn't be spiking at all, anywhere -
especially in liberty-free zones like New York and California...
But Maecker had an
explanation for that, too.
Asked why COVID continues
to spread but the highly contagious influenza bug isn't,
he said:
"I think it's
because,
(1) there is less
pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in the population,
whereas most of us have had vaccines and/or previous bouts
with flu
(2) the
SARS-CoV-2 virus seems to spread more easily than influenza,
including more aerosol transmission and 'super-spreader'
events.
Flu transmission is
almost entirely close-range droplets and hand-to-nose or eyes
contact."
Again…BS...
We're being lied to
once again about COVID so the authoritarians in our society can
continue justifying the elimination of
our freedoms...
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