{"id":226757,"date":"2021-02-05T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T09:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226757"},"modified":"2021-02-08T07:42:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:42:08","slug":"what-happened-to-flu-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=226757","title":{"rendered":"What happened to \u201cflu season?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the age of COVID, \u201cthe flu\u201d has been reclassified as coronavirus, says epidemiologist<\/h3>\n

JD Heyes \u2013 Natural News Feb 3, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The reason, they said, is that in many respects, flu symptoms could and would mimic COVID-19 symptoms.<\/p>\n

But according to one epidemiologist, that problem has been solved by the \u2018powers that be\u2019: Simply reclassify<\/em> flu cases as COVID-19 illnesses \u2014 that way, \u201cflu cases\u201d will go down this year while Joe Biden\u2019s authoritarian Democrats get to continue \u2018justifying\u2019 perpetual lockdowns and theft of our liberty and freedom.<\/p>\n

Per Just the News<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Where have all the\u00a0flu cases gone?<\/em><\/p>\n

Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski thinks he can answer the riddle.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cInfluenza has been renamed COVID in large part,\u201d Wittkowski, the\u00a0<\/strong>former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University, told the outlet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the \u2018presumed\u00a0COVID\u2019\u00a0category of people who have COVID symptoms (which Influenza\u00a0symptoms can be mistaken for),\u00a0but are not tested for SARS RNA,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Such patients, he explained, \u201calso may have some SARS RNA sitting in their nose while being infected\u00a0with Influenza, in which case the influenza would be \u2018confirmed\u2019\u00a0to be\u00a0COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u2019s listed<\/a> as a COVID death<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t just take our word for it or that of Wittkowski; the government\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s recent weekly\u00a0 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\u2019s very typical 8.7 percent cumulative.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s just 0.1 percent.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Timothy Sly, an epidemiology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, told the outlet that \u201cthe reduced incidence of seasonal influenza is almost certainly due to the protection that a large proportion of the population has\u00a0been using for many months.\u201d Those measures, he said, are \u201cdesigned to be effective against any airborne respiratory virus.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Holden Maecker, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, agreed. \u201cI feel pretty confident that the COVID-19 mitigation measures have caused the reduction in flu cases this year,\u201d he told Just the News.\u00a0\u201cMasks, social distancing, and hand washing are all effective counter-measures against colds and flu.\u201d<\/p>\n

Really?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just BS; if that were true, then COVID cases wouldn\u2019t be spiking <\/em>at all, anywhere \u2014 especially in liberty-free zones like New York and California.<\/p>\n

But Maecker had an explanation for that, too. Asked why COVID continues to spread but the highly contagious influenza bug isn\u2019t, he said: \u201cI think it\u2019s 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; and (2) the SARS-CoV-2 virus seems to spread more easily than influenza, including more aerosol transmission and \u2018super-spreader\u2019\u00a0events. Flu transmission is almost entirely close-range droplets and hand-to-nose or eyes contact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Again\u2026BS<\/em>. We\u2019re being lied to once again about COVID so the authoritarians in our society can continue justifying the elimination of our freedoms.<\/p>\n

See more reporting like this at <\/em>Pandemic.news<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sources include:<\/strong><\/p>\n

JustTheNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

NaturalNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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