There is a misinformation epidemic on HN and lots of other places, and part of that has been the use of flu stats to tendentiously argue everything from "the cu

There is a misinformation epidemic on HN and lots of other places, and part of that has been the use of flu stats to tendentiously argue everything from "the current measures are an overreaction" to "REX-84 FEMA black sites New World Order". It's possible you are mistaking flags on such tendentious claims for flags on raw data presented without interpretation - the latter of which, I'll admit, I haven't really seen anywhere lately.