Just to clarify something on the seasonal flu disappearing. It didn’t miraculously disappear, and unlike what seems to make it into the news sources it isn’t because of masks or social distancing. It is known that a new respiratory illnesses or strain will displace others that have dominated for many years. They don’t understand why yet (as far as I’m aware) but it has been seen for decades. Some have even given it a name “the vanishing trick”. I wish I could find the data again, but it showed a sharp drop in flu related Hospitalizations in 2003 when SARS was taking hold. It is why flu vaccinations target the dominant strain for the year, because it displaces the others.Human Factor wrote: ↑Mon Feb 15, 2021 10:14 am The 2.4 million who have died of something so far... with so many Covid deaths being misrepresented worldwide, and the seasonal flu miraculously disappearing for the first year in recorded history, I'd take those numbers with many grains of salt.
But don’t take my word for it. Here is a quote from a book “The Transmission of Epidemic Influenza” written in 1992. It has been happening for decades regardless of masks, distancing and lockdowns.
“THE VANISHING TRICK
Information and specimens reaching Hampstead from many parts of the world drew attention to the most puzzling and apparently illogical of the many conundrums posed by the human influenza viruses. The strains discovered in 1932-33, soon to be called type A influenza virus, remained homogeneous for more than a decade. Then in the winter of 1946-47 they were replaced by a different but related virus that was named "A prime" (written A') in order to distin
guish it from the earlier A strains (See Table 5.1 in Chapter 5, p. 48). Vaccination by a vaccine containing the original A virus conferred little protection against the novel strains. Andrewes was deeply puzzled: " ... strange as it may seem these A primes seem to have completely replaced the classical As allover the world. How this comes about and why the classical As should have vanished is a mystery."13 A mystery indeed! The phenomenon, christened the vanishing trick, has characterized most subsequent major and minor antigenic changes of influenza A virus. Strains that have been causing all the type A influenza in the world for perhaps a dozen years will vanish and next season be replaced everywhere by a novel strain. In the case of minor antigenic changes the predecessor may have been prevalent for only one or two seasons over a large part of the earth's surface before it disappears and is replaced by a new minor variant.”
Too bad nobody seems to talk about it.
The book is too large to attach but can be downloaded online. By Edgar Hope-Simpson