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I have seen some examples of flu being deadly to older people.
One was a woman who first had the flu, she was rather underweight and had other health issues like imbalance of potassium or etc.
So, 1. flu 2. pretty sick 3. leaves hospital 3. back home stroke 4. stroke center 5. hospice 6. deceased
The flu was the first domino but her overall health was typical for many older people.
As I get older I'm taking flu shots more out of fear than out of health care.
As I get older I'm taking flu shots more out of fear than out of health care.
This paper, like the previously cited publication, had a very limited discussion section as it seemed to be wedded to the notion that lockdowns were responsible for the disappearance of influenza. This seemed a very strange conclusion when clearly various influenza strains were disappearing prior to the first lockdowns? I have added the first lockdown date in Italy for reference. An explanation of this streamgraph is that we can see the timeline of active suppression of the dominant infecting pathogen (covid-19) on influenza through this common signalling mechanism. The two waves of major suppression probably represent the seasonal activation in the Southern and Northern hemispheres. If this is what is happening, then it is possible to extrapolate from this data the timeline of global spread of covid-19. It would appear that the first impact was prior to July 2019 and this fits well with other early detection evidence (3)(4). It is also implicit that there was significant early global exposure to covid-19 pandemic and questions virtually all the measures that were implemented around the world.
The data in the papers cited above also supports the hypothesis / propositions of R.E. Hope-Simpson and D.B Golubev(5), specific to influenza, in that the virus initially embeds at a low / latent level and then is reactivated by a seasonal signal. I have written further Substack articles that further expand on this concept (6).
The chemical signalling that exists between viruses, hosts and bacteria have been known for very many years (7). This was ignored during the pandemic. If you are interested in learning more about the fascinating phenomena of pathogen interference, I would recommend the extensive work of Dr Rodney Jones and Andrey Ponomarenko (8). There are also the various publications and presentations by Professor Christine Stabel-Benn (9).
Interesting that there was a huge decrease in influenza before Wuhan Virus was officially a thing, at least according to this graph:
changed over into Covid 19 production
https://www.axios.com/2022/11/19/cdc-flu-activity-elevated-hospitalization-rate-decade
So what? Old people ain't gonna die all by themselves!
Oh, sorry, they...do.
Die.
All by themselves.
Moving on