After a prominent celebrity went public with the following statement on
national television, I tried to contact him for a follow-up. No luck so
far. He does seem to urge people to take the flu shot, but his other
remarks are potentially explosive, if you
fill in a few blanks and glean the implications. Here is his
statement:
"I want you to understand something that shocked me when I saw it. I
spoke with Dr. Fauci on this and I was really amazed, and I think most
people are amazed to hear it. The [ordinary] flu in our country kills
from 25,000 people to 69,000 people a year.
That was shocking to me. So far, if you look at what we [in the US]
have with the 15 people [diagnosed with the coronavirus] and they're
recovering, one is pretty sick, but hopefully we'll [he'll] recover. But
the others are in great shape. But think of that.
25,000 to 69,000 [ordinary flu deaths annually]. Over the last 10
years, we've lost 360,000. These are people that have died from the flu,
from what we call the flu..."
He seems to be pointing a big fat accusatory finger at US public health
agencies, like the CDC, as he says, Look, all these deaths from ordinary
flu every single year, like clockwork, and you don't declare THAT an
epidemic or an emergency, so why are you issuing
stern warnings when 15 people in the US have been diagnosed with the
coronavirus; imagine the reaction if we had 35,000 deaths year after
year from the coronavirus in the US; you would go nuts; what's wrong
with you people?
You can see why I wanted to follow up with him. All sorts of issues to explore and discuss.
Of course, as I've shown in these pages many times, he's dead wrong
about how many people can be confirmed as annual flu deaths in the US.
That number is really miniscule. Nevertheless, his point stands: if
national public health agencies CLAIM that 35,000
people a year die of ordinary flu, why don't they call that an
epidemic? And why do they call 15 "coronavirus cases" in the US an
emergency?
I wanted to sort all this out with him, but it looks like I won't be able to.
His name is Donald Trump, and he made his comments Wednesday night during his address to the nation.
The press made very little mention of this, except to disparage him for
daring to compare ordinary pedestrian flu to the white-hot coronavirus
situation. What is ordinary about the claim that 360,000 Americans per
decade die of the flu? That's a puzzle, isn't
it? I just called my doctor. He told me to take two Thorazine, go to
bed, and think about it again in the morning. |
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