As the Wall Street Journal headline declared last Friday:
This Season, Flu is All but Wiped Out
January normally is a time when the common flu wreaks havoc on populations around the globe. The WHO estimates between 500 million and one billion get infected every year, which causes three to five million serious cases.
The WHO estimates approximately 300,000 to 650,000 people have died of the flu each year before the arrival of COVID-19 (to date, about 100 million worldwide have been infected with COVID-19 with just over two million deaths).
So far this year, the flu is virtually absent compared to previous years. In Japan, for example, there were some 1,000 infections in the second week of this month compared to 800,000 last year. In the U.K., according to the Wall Street Journal article, in the first week of January, no cases were reported at all.
In the U.S., as an example, Dr. Marie-Louise Landry, director of the Yale Clinical Virology Laboratory, reported, “By this time in December last year, we had diagnosed over 100 flu cases in our laboratory. This year we have had none.”
The same phenomenon is reported in southern hemisphere countries. In Australia, The Guardian reports that “fewer than 40 Australians have died from influenza this year, compared to more than 950 last year,” and “there haven’t been any deaths for the past three to four months.”
Norio Sugaya, a pediatrician with the WHO, admitted, “This is an extremely puzzling phenomenon. We’re in a historic, unbelievable situation.”
The WHO has attempted to eliminate the “puzzle” by claiming it’s because of COVID mandates such as mask-wearing and restricting public gatherings. But another theory is that the coronavirus has boosted people’s immune systems against other viruses such as the flu.
The WSJ article advocated that “to keep the flu from returning stronger than ever, doctors said people will have to stick to some of the habits they have learned from COVID-19, including frequent hand sanitizing and mask-wearing.”
But the article goes further than reporting hand-washing and mask-wearing. It quotes a virologist at Tokyo University who recommends that to prevent viral infections in the future, airlines need to require proof of vaccinations for both COVID-19 and the flu.
TRENDPOST: As we have reported since the outbreak of the COVID War, hospitals had been reporting that people were killed by the virus if they tested positive but were, in fact, dying from different diseases or circumstances. Therefore, the flu, rather than miraculously disappearing, has been the actual cause of death, but because someone tested positive for the virus, “COVID-19” is what was listed.
