{"id":319591,"date":"2025-12-07T08:55:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319591"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T08:39:45","slug":"lets-talk-aboutthe-looming-flu-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=319591","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s talk about\u2026the looming flu \u201ccrisis\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Off-Guardian \u2013 Dec 6, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>A school in Caerphilly is shutting down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3e0z9433pwo\">after 250 students<\/a> and staff were diagnosed with flu. A school in Northern Ireland has got 170 students off sick.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crmdvkenv22o\">\u201cIt\u2019s worse than Covid\u201d<\/a><\/em>, said one headmaster, to the likely delight of headline writers everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>This is all because of a very serious illness outbreak, and is not even slightly the knock-on effect of Christmas-eager kids and overly cautious parents taking advantage of official recommendations that <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/Zpsp6\">anyone with flu-like symptoms should stay home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the NHS is \u201cbracing\u201d for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2025\/dec\/04\/flu-patients-nhs-england-hospital-up-56-per-cent-on-a-year-ago\">\u201cunprecedented\u201d<\/a> flu season.<\/p>\n<p>The flu of concern is H3N2 \u201cSubclade K\u201d, apparently. It\u2019s <em>\u201cunlike any strain of flu I\u2019ve ever seen\u201d,<\/em> according to a \u201cvirus-hunter\u201d in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-15356023\/virus-hunter-H3N2-strain-flu-havoc-globe-nhs-hospital.html\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They don\u2019t actually explain precisely HOW it\u2019s \u201cunlike any other flu\u201d, but they do point out something that will doubtless sound very familiar:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u2018Unfortunately, you can\u2019t distinguish H3N2 from other flu strains based on symptoms alone\u2014they all look and feel very similar.<\/p>\n<p>Another delightfully vintage line doing the rounds is that \u201cvaccines will save lives\u201d, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/health\/canada-flu-season-warnings-9.6970982\">they might not<\/a>. It\u2019s a contradiction constructed as a byproduct of the diverse objectives of propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Internationally, mask mandates are back in <a href=\"https:\/\/euroweeklynews.com\/2025\/11\/28\/spain-hits-back-masks-are-mandatory-again\/\">Spain<\/a>, Japan is bracing for an \u201cearly flu season\u201d and the US is at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/how-bad-will-flu-season-be-this-year\/\">panic stations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all very retro\u2026and a little bit funny. Especially when you actually read what the Japanese Institute of Health Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2025\/12\/02\/japan\/science-health\/flu-season\/\">actually says<\/a> about \u201cSubclade K\u201d [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The risk of developing severe symptoms from Subclade K <strong>is no higher than other strains<\/strong>, according to JIHS. The institute also added that the new strain is <strong>not necessarily more contagious<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So, for those keeping score at home, the current flu variant of concern:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is symptomatically identical to other flus<\/li>\n<li>Is no more dangerous than other flus.<\/li>\n<li>Might not be more contagious than other flus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of which rather begs two questions.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>So what\u2019s all the fuss about then?<\/li>\n<li>\u2026they\u2019re not actually going to try this again, right?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Just one last thing to mention. Two months ago, the UK government completed <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/commons\/2025-09-16\/debates\/25091659000016\/PandemicPreparednessExercisePegasus\">\u201cOperation Pegasus\u201d<\/a> its largest ever pandemic preparedness exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Support Off-Guardian:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/offguardian\">Ko-fi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.subscribestar.com\/offguardian\">Subscribestar<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=CKFB3MH8CGB9U\">Paypal<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2025\/12\/06\/lets-talk-about-the-looming-flu-crisis\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government seems to be preparing the public for another \u201chealth crisis\u201d. Two months ago it completed its largest-ever pandemic preparedness exercise. Are we about to see another contrived health scare, necessitating lockdowns and mass-vaccinations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":319593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Health_and_the_New_World_Order"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319595,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319591\/revisions\/319595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/319593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}