{"id":9463,"date":"2025-05-27T22:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/?p=9463"},"modified":"2025-05-27T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:35:26","slug":"the-political-erasure-of-the-flu-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/the-political-erasure-of-the-flu-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The political erasure of The-Flu in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2025\/05\/the_non_existent_flu_cases_of_2020.html\">https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2025\/05\/the_non_existent_flu_cases_of_2020.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the United States faced the shock of a new pandemic &#8212; but also a baffling medical mystery: the disappearance of the seasonal flu. While COVID-19 cases dominated headlines and hospital beds, flu diagnoses plummeted to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/flu\/weekly\/overview.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">too low to estimate<\/a>,&#8221; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with later estimates at a mere 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s not just a statistical anomaly &#8212; it\u2019s a statistical impossibility. From an estimated 48 million cases in 2019\u20132020, the flu dropped to 2000 cases, statistically zero, in 2020\u20132021, amounting to a 99.999998% decrease &#8212; or put another way, a nearly 10 million percent drop. In the realm of infectious disease, that kind of disappearance doesn\u2019t happen without a force far greater than a virus. In this case, that force may have been&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/coronavirus\/cares-act-provider-relief-fund\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">government incentives<\/a>, diagnostic bias, and political opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Side-by-Side Comparison: Flu vs. COVID-19 (and Total Deaths)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a year-by-year comparison of flu and COVID-19 cases in the U.S., alongside total recorded deaths from all causes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.americanthinker.com\/rf\/rfvmnxokpmriffolhjzz_640.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.americanthinker.com\/articles\/2025\/05\/the_non_existent_flu_cases_of_2020.html In 2020, the United States faced the shock of a new pandemic &#8212; but also a baffling medical mystery: the disappearance of the seasonal flu. While COVID-19 cases dominated headlines and hospital beds, flu diagnoses plummeted to &#8220;too low to estimate,&#8221; according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with later estimates at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9464,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9463\/revisions\/9464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.no-lockdown.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}