1. At least 80,000 people died of flu last winter in U.S., CDC says
The government says it’s the highest death toll since the winter of 1976-1977.
The U.S. government estimates that 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications last winter — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, revealed the total in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press.
Flu experts knew that it was a very bad season, but at least one found the estimate surprising.
“That’s huge,” said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University vaccine expert. The tally was nearly twice as much as what health officials had previously considered a bad year, he said.
In recent years, flu-related deaths have ranged from about 12,000 to 56,000, according to the CDC.
Last fall and winter, the U.S. went through one of the most severe flu seasons in recent memory. It was driven by a kind of flu that tends to put more people in the hospital and cause more deaths, particularly among young children and the elderly.
2. And now we know what this is really about. This is not about obeying the rules for isolation to avoid spreading the virus. This is about failure to utterly and totally submit to authority no matter how that authority is abused. It seems obvious that the police issued a LARGER fine to this retired carpenter because he dared go on The Rebel and expose the tyrannical nature of the state unchained to act in the absence of law.
More footage at link here from Pentagon
The videos ask a lot more questions then they answer:
1: What type of propulsion system are they using?
2: Are they manned or drones?
2A: If manned how do they survive the G forces when they suddenly change direction?
3: How do they change directions that fast?
Jan 8, 2018:
‘The problem child of seasonal flu’: Beware this winter’s virus
People in public health hate H3N2 flu seasons, like the one gripping most of North America right now. So do folks who work in hospitals and in the care facilities that look after the elderly.
To put it flatly, H3N2 is the problem child of seasonal flu.
It causes more deaths than the other influenza A virus, H1N1, as well as flu B viruses. It’s a quirky virus that seems, at every turn, to misbehave and make life miserable for the people who contract it, the scientists trying to keep an eye on it, and the drug companies struggling to produce an effective vaccine against it.…
H3N2 is especially hard on seniors…. Why is that? Is the virus more virulent than the other flu families that infect people? It could be, but that’s not 100% clear…
There’s long been a theory – and it appears to be gaining ground – that a person’s ability to fight off flu infections is based on their previous experiences with influenza. More specifically, their earliest experiences with flu. It’s thought that the first flu viruses that infect you leave an imprint on your immune system’s memory; if correct, the notion is that you’ll always be able to fight off viruses similar to your first flu foes better than you will other types of flu viruses.
The concept is called original antigenic sin, though the term imprinting is also used.…
[fascinating article, see https://www.statnews.com/2018/01/08/flu-virus-h3n2/ ]
I’ve been expecting an epidemic kill-off for years:
• https://vladtepesblog.com/2019/02/16/contributors-links-post-for-february-16th-2019/comment-page-1/#comment-467784
• https://vladtepesblog.com/2019/02/16/contributors-links-post-for-february-16th-2019/comment-page-1/#comment-467784
My file set goes back to 1917: Severity doesn’t correlate with elections, as fun as that theory might be.
You can force the years to line up by choosing the November of one season, or the following January – March of the same season. Enlist propaganda media to make your case, complete with media epidemiologists and cute diagrams.