I’ve read the room and know how this will land before I say it but it must be said anyway:
Is it at all possible, even just a chance, that the lockdowns and the masks and the distancing and the 55 gallon drums of sanitizer had an impact on cold and flu cases?
Those measures didn't stop the Peking Pertussis, so why would you assume they stopped other diseases? You probably Believe in Science™ instead of rational evaluation of empirical evidence.
Homes and hospitals are where diseases spread the most. One of the primary reasons flu season is in the winter is because the cold drives everyone inside their homes. People still need to go out for supplies such as food too, and, with so many stores closed, the centralized locations help disease spread.
Now that I've covered both inductive and deductive reasoning, you can answer my question. Those measures didn't stop the Peking Pertussis, so why would you assume they stopped other diseases? I don't have a good theory of mind for complete fucking retards, so your answer will be very illuminating.
Not realistically, especially when we had just come off a very heavy flu year in 2018. You would see maybe a decent decline, but not the complete inexistence of it for over a year.
Flu deaths dropped 97% in 2020. They claim it’s because “health consciousness”. This is bullshit, they simply stopped classifying the flu because the symptoms became Covid symptoms.
The publication reports approximately 600 deaths attributed to influenza during the 2020-2021 flu season in the United States, which typically peaks between December and February. Compared to previous years, where the numbers in the 2019-2020 season saw roughly 22,000 deaths, and the 2018-2019 season had more at 34,000 deaths, 600 is a 97 percent drop.
Maybe. But it's negligible compared to the redefinition of what the symptoms mean
And as others have pointed out, it was probably outdone by forced isolation. Sedimentation, lack of sunlight and fresh air, bad food. It's a recipe for getting sick. Guess what lockdowns gave us
I’ve read the room and know how this will land before I say it but it must be said anyway:
Is it at all possible, even just a chance, that the lockdowns and the masks and the distancing and the 55 gallon drums of sanitizer had an impact on cold and flu cases?
Those measures didn't stop the Peking Pertussis, so why would you assume they stopped other diseases? You probably Believe in Science™ instead of rational evaluation of empirical evidence.
https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
https://archive.is/1laAf
https://archive.is/6PuOl
https://archive.is/0BvI3
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993.pdf
Fuck off back to scrying the chicken livers.
Sure, get nasty.
Tell me though....how would any virus spread when people were quarantined to their houses for months?
Homes and hospitals are where diseases spread the most. One of the primary reasons flu season is in the winter is because the cold drives everyone inside their homes. People still need to go out for supplies such as food too, and, with so many stores closed, the centralized locations help disease spread.
Now that I've covered both inductive and deductive reasoning, you can answer my question. Those measures didn't stop the Peking Pertussis, so why would you assume they stopped other diseases? I don't have a good theory of mind for complete fucking retards, so your answer will be very illuminating.
Not realistically, especially when we had just come off a very heavy flu year in 2018. You would see maybe a decent decline, but not the complete inexistence of it for over a year.
The CDC estimates there were between 24,000-64,000 flu deaths for the 2019/2020 flu season. Not exactly a complete in-existence, wouldn’t you agree?
Flu deaths dropped 97% in 2020. They claim it’s because “health consciousness”. This is bullshit, they simply stopped classifying the flu because the symptoms became Covid symptoms.
And stopped testing for the Flu...
Maybe. But it's negligible compared to the redefinition of what the symptoms mean
And as others have pointed out, it was probably outdone by forced isolation. Sedimentation, lack of sunlight and fresh air, bad food. It's a recipe for getting sick. Guess what lockdowns gave us