I remember stockpiling staple foods like dry beans & rice. I remember all the medical people I knew taking it very seriously. I remember various comments by tRump.
“Looks like by April, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away.” “very much under control,” “We’re going down, not up. We’re going very substantially down, not up.” “...when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” “And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
Don't get too fixated on deaths alone; influenza can have death rates that can vary by factors of 2 or more from year to year, depending on the strain.
For example, the estimated number of cases was about the same for 2011-2012 and 2021-2022, but the number of deaths was about twice as high in 2011.
As your graph shows, 50,000 flu deaths is a bad flu year. Covid was on another level before vaccines became available.
Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020. I n 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths were classified as Covid. That's SEVEN TIMES a bad flu year.
That my wife and I had an excellent St Patricks day meal of corned beef and cabbage the young man who was our waiter was great took good care of us and had a lot of personality, we gave him a very generous tip and thanked him for the great service. The next week Covid shut down all the restaurants I told my wife that young man just lost his job and felt bad for him!
I was a senior in high school. I had just found out the guy I was dating was also dating some other girl who was way too young for him. Her and I actually became friends after that because she had all of my interests.
Our class was trying out Google Hangout before Zoom became a thing in schools. It was a fun time, everyone was just funnier at home. They told us that school would only be out for a month then shortly after it got closed for the rest of the year.
I used to take a college class during my senior year of high school, the professor who was teaching it also worked in a hospital. We got an email that she got covid and passed away. That always felt unreal, she was a really nice person. I remember when I did my presentation about dentistry and i got everyone tooth brushes. She requested a blue one and said she always has to have a blue toothbrush. May she rest in peace.
I knew I'd had it in December, but didnt know at the time. I thought because I'd had it i was immune to getting it again. I was a key worker so carried on working, but living separately from my partner. A couple of times a week i was dropping off food for him as being an asthmatic he was terrified. I felt very alone and afraid
I lost my job in the first shut down. Then my house. Had to move back in with family. I remember the fear people had of it. The bafflement over the Toilet Paper. How Western Australia shut down its borders and didn't get as bad as everyone else did. And I remember the people who had been travelling through the state forced to stay put. Getting a new job at an Aged Care home and how horrid it was to work in a COVID ward.
Mass hystria. work was busy. It kills me that people still believe the lies we were all told and that cloth masks can stop a virus. All this plexiglass can stop air and germs from moving around. People at work walked around with a stick 6 foot long measuring keeping people 6 feet appart. I knew from my 5th grade health class that 6 feet was complete BS!
The covid tests sold at stores are bogus. I still have friends that will test weekly to see if they are sick even though they feel great. One of the symptoms of being sick is feeling great!
The swab test was rigged to come up possitive. The guy who created it said it was only to test for strain, not used to determine if some one was sick.
People come to work now sick with covid. No 6 feet, no one cares if you are sick. You still have to come to work. No worry every one else is going to get sick. I have pointed out over and over we used to believe all the lies told to us in 2020.
@Confined It also turned out that many people were diagnosed with the Chinese Flu only after having died from car accidents, heart attacks and angry wives.
It’s very easy to remember. My mother passed away 9 March and the world shut down the day of her service. We couldn’t hold the luncheon that we planned thanks to Big Blue.
My mom had just died, I had a full time kindergartener all of the sudden, my family dumped me and my son and I were doing his school from the back of our van because we had no wifi at home. It was a flipping mess for me.
It was scary. All these people getting sick, going to the hospital, being put on ventilators. But the scariest part of all was the people who were in denial of how serious it was, right up until they got sick and had to be put on ventilators.
On a personal note, I remember one person in particular. My dad had hired a subcontractor to work on the remodel of our duplex in southeast Portland. This guy sat down and talked to me on his smoke break, telling me about how the medical mask mandate was completely pointless, and he wasn't going to be observing it, because it was a test by the US government to see if people would take the mark of the beast without question. He just went on and on about how COVID-19 was made up, and kept telling me about details he was getting wrong and why they didn't make sense.
Then, just a few days later, he called me up and told me to tell my dad he wasn't going to be able to work because he was having flu-like symptoms, and he'd lost his sense of taste and smell.
@kittee I told my dad that and he agreed. The moment he called in with COVID after his weird little monologue, we decided he was unemployed. People my dad's age were dying left and right, and this guy was being a total pinecone about safety.
I had a heart attack as we were confined (unrelated) and it meant I had complete rest immediately afterwards and I was free of worry about cancelling my plans.
Bob raises the following question: Are the Covid death numbers the result of mis-classification of other causes of death?
Here in the table are US death numbers for the top ten causes of death for six years ending in 2020. Notice how there are 20% more deaths in 2020 than the average of the previous five years? Doing the math, that's 500,000 excess deaths in 2020.
Notice how, in 2020, 345,000 of those 500,000 excess deaths are classified as Covid? Notice how almost all causes of death rose in 2020, including cancer & heart disease?
If there's any validity to the claim that lots of deaths have been mis-classified as Covid, why did almost all causes of death increase in 2020? Wouldn't mis-classification produce a reduction in those other causes? The evidence says mis-classification is a red herring.
I just remember feeling utterly terrified. Watching the news as the death toll crept up I wondered if I would be able to keep my family safe. It was horrible but now it seems long ago.
I remember that week well. I work in the grocery business so I was watching the crazy sales numbers as people started hoarding. The effects rippled through the business for a couple of years.
As airlines were cancelling flights globally, I texted a couple I knew who were on vacation in Egypt for 4 weeks, telling them to get on a plane and get back to Toronto ASAP before all flights out of Europe and UK westbound were cancelled. They were standing beside a pyramid when they received my text.
Acting promptly, they went back to their hotel that day, packed up and flew from Egypt to London Heathrow, then directly to Toronto, arriving back home only 48 hours after I'd texted them.
Upon arrival in Toronto, she got sick immediately and was admitted to hospital, now diagnosed with Covid-19 and becoming the first person in Canada to actually contract the disease. In fact they both had Covid-19.
They believe they got Covid while in Egypt or somewhere in transit, but 8 months later she was dead from committing suicide after being diagnosed with 'long Covid' and unable to cope with it's debilitating side effects. 🇨🇦
@whowasthatmaskedman they know how to prevent spread, how to take public health seriously, so much for behind "undeveloped!" They were well on their way with immunizations, and HIV/AIDS with USAID help, until you know what!
@JimboSaturn dude same we need to have another pandemic, but like instead of dying if you catch the illness, you lose 30 pounds and you become a fit bikini model😅
Massive propaganda campaign implemented in order to make people take a very dangerous and experimental “vaccine” which did nothing to prevent you from getting Covid. Covid something which was never as dangerous as advertised.
Why did the FLU almost completely disappear that year?
COVID didn't do anything .. governments shut us down. covid was an exercise in government control of the population via scar propaganda over the common flu 😒
The endless propaganda on TV and other media about getting vaccinated. And the free crap they were giving to people who were willing to do it…free donuts for crying out loud.
