For most of the United States, next week marks the quasi-official “start” of cold and flu season, that time of year when people are particularly susceptible to various forms of Influenza-Like-Illnesses, or ILI. For most state and local public health agencies, this means formally tracking and reporting patients who present at hospital with the symptoms of Influenza-Like Illness, and the subset of those who then test positive for influenza virus itself.
"COVID-19 is not the cause of a greater incidence of ILI this year; rather, it is the insane and incompetent responses to COVID-19 foisted on the public by pompous, arrogant, and utterly wrong “experts” who have to a man ignored the data, ignored the science, and promoted a propagandistic and ultimately fictional narrative of the COVID-19 “pandemic”¹ that have brought about the increased vulnerability among pediatric patients especially. The real "pandemic" surrounding COVID-19 was the staggering amount of medical malpractice promoted as medical "best practice".
100%.
March of 2020 marked the point where we uprooted decades worth of established science and went full hysterical superstition.
And leading the charge were the 'experts'.
Now the experts - some of them anyway - who peddled pseudoscience are slowly trying to tip-toe backwards out of the room.
"We didn't know' is the new 'I was just doing my job;.
Yep. I'll keep taking my supplements -- C, D, Zinc, Quercetin, etc. -- even though the strain(s) of Covid currently in circulation are no worse than an ordinary cold or flu, because being sick generally sucks and it seems likely that this regimen will be helpful against all respiratory viruses.
"COVID-19 is not the cause of a greater incidence of ILI this year; rather, it is the insane and incompetent responses to COVID-19 foisted on the public by pompous, arrogant, and utterly wrong “experts” who have to a man ignored the data, ignored the science, and promoted a propagandistic and ultimately fictional narrative of the COVID-19 “pandemic”¹ that have brought about the increased vulnerability among pediatric patients especially. The real "pandemic" surrounding COVID-19 was the staggering amount of medical malpractice promoted as medical "best practice".
100%.
March of 2020 marked the point where we uprooted decades worth of established science and went full hysterical superstition.
And leading the charge were the 'experts'.
Now the experts - some of them anyway - who peddled pseudoscience are slowly trying to tip-toe backwards out of the room.
"We didn't know' is the new 'I was just doing my job;.
Yep. I'll keep taking my supplements -- C, D, Zinc, Quercetin, etc. -- even though the strain(s) of Covid currently in circulation are no worse than an ordinary cold or flu, because being sick generally sucks and it seems likely that this regimen will be helpful against all respiratory viruses.