Tag: Covid was the annual flu

Guest Post by Alex Berenson

Someone who’d ostracized me during Covid said it out loud: “You were right. Never again.”

It was maybe the most humiliating moment of my Covid life.

Summer 2021, the Twitter-ban era: a friend of one of our kids came to our house to play. When they realized I – not my wife – was supervising, the child’s parents told us they were uncomfortable and would retrieve their kid immediately.

They weren’t joking. They arrived in minutes. They made a three-point turn in our driveway so they were facing out and wouldn’t spend any extra seconds close to me.

I watched their child run to their car, watched it disappear down the road, thinking: Now my kids are paying the price, too.

Continue reading “It finally happened”

Guest Post by Michael Bryant

As the story of COVID-19 was unfolding back in early 2020, demanding every moment of our attention, there was another historic health event involving a viral relative.

This unprecedented event strangely coincided with the Covid-19 crisis but did not register a blip in the media landscape.

The 2020 media season began with warnings that the coming flu season was destined to be one of the worst in history. Even the CDC/NIAID Grand Poobah himself, Anthony Fauci, predicted early on that the 2020 flu season would be one of the worst in decades.

Despite those early forecasts, reports of the predicted flu rampage became scarce to non-existent by early March.

At the same time, the CDC scaled back its comprehensive ‘Flu View’ Surveillance System, its flagship offering for 22 years and shifted their focus to another “Influenza Like Illness”(ILI), Covid-19.

While the world was riveted by this ‘novel’ killer virus, the time-honored seasonal virus known as ‘the flu’ dropped to historic lows and virtually disappeared from the CDC’s surveillance system.

Was this a coincidence that our long-standing friend ‘the flu’ exited the stage at precisely the moment Covid entered?

Continue reading “Was Covid19 a re-branded flu?”