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Also flu deaths have been greatly exaggerated. Which explains how with a supposed 50k flu deaths in a year in the USA, it has never inundated hospitals like this.


85k coronavirus deaths haven't inundated hospitals in the US either, except in the absolute epicenter in NYC, and even then not to the point originally feared. It's very easy to imagine 50k flu deaths geographically spread evenly not overwhelming US hospitals, especially given that they'd be spread over something like 3x the current coronavirus epidemic timespan. I'm very skeptical of the sudden "oh those flu deaths aren't real" narrative.


Ok, bad word choice with inundated, although NYC got pretty bad.

You can be skeptical, but it does seem to be the case that flu deaths is actually a made up number.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...


Why do you think that 50k annual US flu deaths would be overwhelming the hospitals?

It would also be fantastic if you could provide a credible source for this surprising claim that US flu deaths are greatly overstated.





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