>This datapoint alone is enough to show that Covid is not signficantly different from a normal seasonal flu.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/italy/
Coronavirus Cases: 1,921,778
Deaths: 67,894
Recovered: 1,226,086
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1). The number of influenza-associated illnesses that occurred last season was similar to the estimated number of influenza-associated illnesses during the 2012–2013 influenza season when an estimated 34 million people had symptomatic influenza illness6.
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Population of Italy: 60,317,116
Population of USA: 308,401,808
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While having a population 5 times smaller than the US, italy got more death from covid in less than a year than the US got from the "afluenza" in a year... So it's not exactly just the seasonal flu
You aren't going to fool the entire world medical community with a mere "marketing trick", to fool them you need to confront them with something new, something different they aren't prepared to deal with, something out of the ordinary, something they don't know, to catch them off guard, so you can easily force them to default to "better be safe than sorry" position. Because otherwise it's not going to work, too many will call it "just the flu"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Infection_in_humans
>Coronaviruses vary significantly in risk factor. Some can kill more than 30% of those infected, such as MERS-CoV, and some are relatively harmless, such as the common cold.[50]
What I do know for sure is that I'm not a virologist, and that covid19, is as much the same as the seasonal flu as MERS was
You see, all bullets are bullets, and both 9mm and .22 can kill. Now as you probably know, it doesn't mean 9mm caliber is the same thing as .22 just because both are relatively small
https://pic8.co/sh/5P6sl5.jpeg
And then you have 20mm... That's still called a bullet while in reality it should start to be called minimissile
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All that being said it is evident that quite a number of death were wrongly attributed to covid, at least in the US. There are enough articles floating around to drive the point home quite easily
Now it doesn't mean covid19 is harmless or not even real or "just the flu"
And it certainly doesn't mean that some people aren't going to capitalize on the covid19 crisis to advance their agenda
The marketing trick you mentioned was merely the rebranding of the seasonal flu, combined with a test. The CDC and other health authorities hoaxed the infection count by doing more tests, hoaxed the mortality rate by calculating it based off the total number of positives to these tests (and not an estimate of total illnesses, like you normally would use to calculate flu mortality), and hoaxed the death count by encouraging hospitals to reclassify deaths from other causes as Covid, as long as covid symptoms, such as "weakness" or "shortness of breath" were present.
Meanwhile, anyone in the medical community who has spoken against the narrative has been heavily censored online, creating a false appearance of consensus.
Regardless of all that, you would expect more people to have died this year in the face of a "deadly pandemic". Instead it's about the same, which is evidence of the sleight of hand mentioned above.
The reality is that seasonal "flu", while it gets its namesake from influenza, is caused by a slew of viruses. Some of them coronaviruses. The symptoms and mortality are roughly the same, some relatively more serious than others (ex: 2017-2018 was a bad flu year, but it's still the flu). Your analogy to different caliber bullets overplays the difference of severity, and it is downright laughable to compare covid 19 to a 20 mm even with all the hoaxing that's gone on.
Even if you subscribe to the belief that the testing must be accurate (you seem to since your argument rests on case numbers), the testing of blood donations has revealed that this so-called pandemic has been present in the us since December, meaning the us had a full-blown deadly pandemic that was so freaking deadly that... Nobody noticed? That is until the good people of the government and media brought it to our attention. Wow, must be pretty serious stuff.
Anyway, just wanted to see where you'd arrived on that topic.
>The marketing trick you mentioned was merely the rebranding of the seasonal flu
>Meanwhile, anyone in the medical community who has spoken against the narrative has been heavily censored online
According to Professor Luc Montagnier, winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for “discovering” HIV as the cause of the AIDS epidemic together with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, the SARS-CoV-2 is a virus that was manipulated and accidentally released from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in the last quarter of 2019.
According to Professor Montagnier, this laboratory, known for its work on coronaviruses, tried to use one of these viruses as a vector for HIV in the search for an AIDS vaccine!
“With my colleague, bio-mathematician Jean-Claude Perez, we carefully analyzed the description of the genome of this RNA virus,” explains Luc Montagnier, interviewed by Dr Jean-François Lemoine for the daily podcast at Pourquoi Docteur, adding that others have already explored this avenue:
Indian researchers have already tried to publish the results of the analyses that showed that this coronavirus genome contained sequences of another virus, … the HIV virus (AIDS virus), but they were forced to withdraw their findings as the pressure from the mainstream was too great.
In a challenging question Dr Jean-François Lemoine inferred that the coronavirus under investigation may have come from a patient who is otherwise infected with HIV.
"No," says Luc Montagnier, "in order to insert an HIV sequence into this genome, molecular tools are needed, and that can only be done in a laboratory."
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Are you a virologist?
Did you conduct DNA analysis on the covid19?
No
So?
So you're talking out of your ass, you make conjectures and call them evidence that covid19 is the seasonal flu
What do you want me to say? "That's great, good job!"?
This whole line of argument conveniently sidesteps the fact that there are not more deaths than there were last year. So even if your claims are true and this is some Jew/Chinaman-created lab virus, the fact remains it is not more deadly than the flu. I'm not really even against the suggestion that the virus was manmade. Obviously if you wanted to hoax a pandemic a manmade virus would allow you to control the timing. However, the assumption that it's manmade doesn't show that the virus is more deadly. If more people aren't dying, then obviously it's not more deadly.
Are you a virologist?
Such appeals to authority are about what you would expect from a midwit redditor.
"Are you a virologist? No? Well then you have no right to say the covid ain't deadly/masks don't work/ etc. Are you a climate scientist? Well you have no right to have an opinion on global warming. Trust the SCIENCE!"
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