Or allergies. Sniffles no longer are simply a reaction of your body trying to eject pollen or w/e through mucus out of your nose- IT'S ACTUALLY THE MOST DEADLY PANDEMIC THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
You want to know the "covid19 is fake" argument winner that I have not found one person to have an answer for? "Why hasn't the world's homeless population been devastated by covid19? Those people do not wear masks and social distance- they share needles, have unprotected sex, and sleep in dumpsters. Many of them have HIV or other serious autoimmune disorders. And they all survived 2020."
And here's the finishing move: "Any time there is an outbreak of a nearly dead disease, such as malaria, in any part of Africa, the entire world has to come together to save the Africans. But they survived covid19? And the population of Africa is higher in 2021 than it was in 2020, despite an allegedly deadly virus ravaging the entire planet?" Africa should be essentially erased if covid was half as dangerous as they sell it to us.
You want to know the "covid19 is fake" argument winner that I have not found one person to have an answer for?
The missing flu and pneumonia deaths is another one that nobody has been able to pretend to answer.
Unfortunately, I've heard this in response to the disappearance of the flu:
"The flu is down 98% last year because of the masks, social distancing, and lockdowns. This just proves the effectiveness of all the mandates!" You could retort that "If something like the flu can be erased by simply doing what we did last year, then all communicable diseases should have fucking vanished last year."
People genuinely believe this. They can't wrap their minds around "The flu has been re-branded as covid19, and re-sold to us as being far more dangerous than it truly is". The flu and covid19 have identical symptoms. Hospitals and doctor's offices are financially incentivized to have covid patients to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.
"The flu is down 98% last year because of the masks, social distancing, and lockdowns
I've heard this and at that point I just laugh in their face.
"The flu is down 98% last year because of the masks, social distancing, and lockdowns. This just proves the effectiveness of all the mandates!" You could retort that "If something like the flu can be erased by simply doing what we did last year, then all communicable diseases should have fucking vanished last year."
You can also argue, why hasn't Covid vanished if that was the original purpose? That seems to fuck with their narrative and force them to think for a second. It never actually works but it's still entertaining to watch that glazed look for a few seconds before they dive right back into their normal talking points.
Flu vaxx eliminated them!
It's a disease of decadence, our western diets wear us down, the flu is the finishing move.
Africans have an unlimited supply of anti-malarial drugs tho.
Man, my allergies have been horrible this month. Don't remind me 😣
Possibly the answer is the hyper cleanliness of the first world societies. It's a non argument because of the difficulty of surveilling morbidity and mortality in Africa- most of their infectious illnesses are zoonotic...they still have plague, cholera; yellow fever; measles...fuck- monkeypox....anyway, supposedly Africa is experiencing a covid crisis...
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