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The UK Daily Mail published a many-layered onion of an article back in July. You’ll forgive me for missing it at the time, since the story’s
real news was buried under a fake news headline. Let’s start with that: “
Healthy and fit father-of-three, 37, dies from the flu just five days after falling ill with a slight cough: 'It's like we are living in the 18th century’.”
Five days from cough to croaked? Sounds like
turbo-flu!
The headline was true to the extent that Australian Mate Babic, a healthy and fit 37-year old dad died
shortly after catching the flu.
The Daily Mail’s reporter either did a terrible job of trying to frame flu for Mate’s death, or she was secretly trying to smuggle out the true story. Either way, read the Mail’s description of his flu death and then let’s compare notes:
Carla contracted Influenza B early last week, and on Friday Mate had a slight cough, but was still going about his day as normal, cooking dinner for the kids and settling in for a night in front of the footy… On Tuesday night, the 37-year-old was struggling to sleep, running a high fever and suffering from sweats, shaking and bad bouts of coughing so he got up and ran himself a bath.
He walked back into the bedroom and sat on the end of the bed, where he died.
'It is just an absolute tragedy, I just don’t even know what to do. It doesn’t even seem real,' Carla said.
Um. Mate — who symptoms included a fever, sweats, and a cough — died
sitting on the end of his bed waiting for the tub. He never made it to the hospital. He never even
called the hospital. He never even stood up. Before Mate could gasp out a word of protest, flu struck him dead as a doornail, right there, perched on Carla’s best duvet.
Right before that he was
walking around, for crying out loud.
Is that like any flu death you ever heard of? Let us count the problems. First of all — and I shouldn’t even have to say this at this point in our collective involuntary viral-sciences education — nobody dies
‘from flu.’ People with bad cases of flu die from
complications like bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, or “exacerbation of chronic underlying conditions” (per CDC).
Just like covid, coincidentally. But I digress.
Flu doesn’t just strike people dead while they’re waiting around for a nice hot bath to fill up. The very idea is complete rubbish, poppycock.
Now add the fact that seasonal flu almost
never kills healthy 37-year-old dads. When it does kill, seasonal flu kills frail seniors and infants. Remember, we’re talking about
seasonal influenza, not 1918.
That’s why I called the article’s headline “fake news.” Even the Daily Mail’s reporters aren’t dumb enough to buy the pathetic story that Mate died “from flu.” It was probably a massive heart attack.
And
that was just the story’s outside layer. Now let’s peel back the onion
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Then, and follow me here, the young, healthy couple both got severe flu
twice in less than a year. They’d had bad flu in December — resulting in
Carla’s hospitalization, and then
again in July, resulting in
Mate’s death. The Daily Mail claimed — without evidence — they had Influenza A in December and Influenza B in July, but didn’t cite any test or diagnosis. That’s just the Mail trying to cover up the real issue: the couples’ jab-suppressed immune systems.
Let’s peel back another layer.
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Now let’s drill down into the 107 dead Australians and see what we find. According to a second Daily Mail story, also from July, “the highest number among children.”
But it wasn’t infants, as you would expect. It turns out that, coincidentally, the flu deaths are mainly among older children, children old enough to get the covid jabs. In one example, the Mail’s headline read, “
Little Emma, 11, who died from the flu was released from hospital just one day earlier - as cases surge across Australia.”
Emma Schwab, 11, was treated for ‘Influenza B’ at Noosa Hospital in Queensland on July 5th and returned home. In other words, Emma was well enough that the hospital discharged her.
The next day her parents called for emergency services but it was too late; Emma either died at home or shortly after getting to the hospital.
I guess now we do have “turbo flu.” It can kill you in one day and you won’t even be able to make it to the hospital. It can kill you right on the edge of your bed. One minute you’re sitting there musing about whether your wife’s fancy shampoo would make a nice bubble bath, and then — WHAM! — influenza. It’s all over.
In case you missed the news back in 2021, Australia also mandated covid vaccines for kids.
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It’s very tempting to blame all this silly flu fear-mongering on creative death-counting techniques the media honed up during the covid pandemic. It make sense they’re just trying to sell more flu vaccines. But I’m starting to think there might be something more going on.
Here’s yesterday’s headline from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Weird. It’s just like Mate and Carla’s quadruple-flu story. Australians
keep getting sick. Here are the story’s first few paragraphs:
Australia is grappling with the “yo-yo flu”, where cold symptoms continually return, as a sharp rise in respiratory infections has been driven by an early flu season, continuing cases of COVID-19 and the circulation of nasty viruses.