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?
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.
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?
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...