A month or two ago, I posted a link here to a very long discussion between Prof. David Collum and a guy named John Cullen. It was mentally exhausting, with lots of citations of official stats to show that Covid was a cover for the accidental release of re-sequenced Spanish Flu. (But before dismissing that idea as completely insane, you should know that they did resurrect that strain of influenza from an exhumed corpse buried in permafrost since 1919 or so. That's been a published fact for over a decade, if memory serves me.)
Today, Eugyppius posted a new article about the phenomenon of "viral interference." He believes that influenza really did disappear for two years. I can't read his whole article, because my substack budget is maxed out, and he's behind a paywall. If nobody is testing for the 1917 strain, though (and of course no one was) and if the early CT counts of 40+ could find covid on a tennis shoe how could you ever really tell if it was flu or covid?
I don't have any idea. I've also seen recent papers claiming that the high mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic was largely iatrogenic -- super high doses of a relatively new "miracle drug" (aspirin) are alleged to have killed thousands.
About some things, I feel certain: public health authorities mostly lied through their teeth and did their best to ban repurposed drugs. But, all the lies make it impossible to figure out what actually was circulating. And that, it seems, was part of their desired goal.
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Re: flu mixed up with COVID
Date: 2023-06-28 11:50 pm (UTC)Today, Eugyppius posted a new article about the phenomenon of "viral interference." He believes that influenza really did disappear for two years. I can't read his whole article, because my substack budget is maxed out, and he's behind a paywall. If nobody is testing for the 1917 strain, though (and of course no one was) and if the early CT counts of 40+ could find covid on a tennis shoe how could you ever really tell if it was flu or covid?
I don't have any idea. I've also seen recent papers claiming that the high mortality during the Spanish Flu pandemic was largely iatrogenic -- super high doses of a relatively new "miracle drug" (aspirin) are alleged to have killed thousands.
About some things, I feel certain: public health authorities mostly lied through their teeth and did their best to ban repurposed drugs. But, all the lies make it impossible to figure out what actually was circulating. And that, it seems, was part of their desired goal.
*Ochre Harebrained Curmudgeon*