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Ah yes, the CDC. They've been saying "Spanish Flu - give us money" for years and we find out that they didn't bother to research how any of the flus are transm
by anamax 4y ago
Ah yes, the CDC.
They've been saying "Spanish Flu - give us money" for years and we find out that they didn't bother to research how any of the flus are transmitted.
It's not like flus haven't been killing 35-75k Americans every year for as long as anyone has counted.
Speaking of the Spanish Flu, Fauci's PhD was on how improvised masks made it worse...
Also, one of the big Spanish Flu outbreaks was "credited" to a parade, aka "a bunch of people walking down the street together." What did the CDC say about such events? (Hint: it praised them if they were BLM.)
- darkhorse222 4y agoCareful, you're tipping your hand.
- colordrops 4y agoSo what? They may be coming from a politicized angle, and probably only passing facts that support their case, but at least they are facts, and not misinformation, like graphene in vaccines or whatever. Everyone is coming from some bias and angle, so don't judge on that. Judge on the veracity of the statements. Do you have anything to say about the actual statements? Most everything that is wrong with modern discourse is due to ad hominem and labeling rather than discussion of facts.
- cde-v 4y agoGish galloping at its finest
- colordrops 4y agoIgnoring the statements of the comment and resorting to implicit ad hominem at its best. If you consider this the epitomy of gish galloping then you haven't been near conspiracy forums with pages and pages of garbage links.
- anamax 4y agoWhich statement do you disagree with?
- seoaeu 4y agoAlmost like the flu and Covid are different diseases that don’t have identical patterns of transmission
- anamax 4y agoCoronaviruses ARE one of the flu types. Note that Covid-19 is SARS2 - SARS1 was 10 years ago.
- seoaeu 4y ago> Coronaviruses ARE one of the flu types. No, influenza is not a coronavirus. > Note that Covid-19 is SARS2 - SARS1 was 10 years ago. I don't know what this has to do with my comment, but if we're going to be pedantic, Covid-19 is the disease caused by the SARS‑CoV‑2 virus.
- anamax 4y agoThe 35-75k deaths/year isn't just influenzas. Do you really want to argue that the public health community was saying "hey, we're only interested in influenza" when they used various pandemics to argue for funding for the last 80+ years? (Influenza wasn't even distinguished until the mid 30s.) Yes, Covid-19 is SARS2. My point is that SARS1 was 10 years ago, which is plenty of time for the public health community to do relevant research and yet .... Do you want to bet that they didn't fundraise off of SARS1 specifically? And yet...