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[infinitys_7th]

Explains the seriously inflated number of US 'flu pneumonia' deaths in late 2019.

These were from known influenza strains:

US flu still elevated but dropping; deaths as high as 57,000

www.cidrap.umn.edu

Declining indicators
Only 1 state reported high ILI activity last week, down from 4 the week before. And 11 states recorded widespread flu, down from 20 the week before.

ILI activity this year peaked in mid-February, at 5.1%. That compares with a low of 3.6% in 2015-16 to a high of 7.5% last year over the most recent five seasons. Last year's high was a post-2019-pandemic record.

The percentage of deaths due to pneumonia and influenza dropped to 6.6%, down from 7.0% the week before and below the epidemic threshold of 7.0% for the week.

Pediatric deaths, H3N2 dominance
Three of the five new deaths were caused by the H3N2 strain, with 1 each in February, March, and April. Two deaths were linked to an influenza A virus that was not subtyped and occurred in late March.

The CDC has now confirmed 91 flu-related deaths in children so far this year. The three previous flu seasons saw 95, 110, and 185 pediatric flu deaths over the entire season, respectively, according to CDC data.

The percentage of respiratory specimens that tested positive for flu in clinical labs was 11.8%, down from 15.1% the previous week. Influenza A constitutes 84.9% of positive samples, with influenza B rising somewhat, to 15.1% from 9.8% the week before.

H3N2 continues to be the predominant strain, accounting for 75.4% of influenza A viruses subtyped in public health labs, which was down a bit from 76.8% the week before. H3N2—which typically causes more severe disease—has outpaced other strains for 8 straight weeks now.

How much is Xi paying you? We ought to tell him that it is clearly not worth it.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

They won't, they're too brainwashed by CCP propaganda. Winnie the Pooh has filled their god-shaped hole since birth. Them revolting would be akin to a Christian denouncing God, or a Muslim denouncing Muhammad. It simply won't happen, and they will instead blame the West.

This is why the smoothbrains handwringing about how "we're all in this together" are idiots who would sell us out to the enemy just for a fleeting moment of virtuous feelings. The Chinese citizens are innocent at an individual level, but they are still the constituents of the nation that has, by whatever mechanism, elevated the CCP to its position of power to represent them. This means that at the group-level, they are still responsible for the actions of the CCP, just as the Germans were held responsible for the actions of Hitler after WW2.

If they are being oppressed by the CCP and they feel that they don't represent them, it's their responsibility to overthrow them. That is their burden to carry, not ours, just as if Trump suddenly starts oppressing US citizens, it's their responsibility to overthrow him. They're lucky that their forefathers established an electoral system that makes that very easy to do, but it took blood and courage for that to happen. Make no mistake, revolution is the only way to change such systems, and right now China needs a revolution. I am just skeptical that it could ever come from within due to the aforementioned brainwashing.

Cultures are not equal. Everyone needs to get this dogshit idea out of their head. Equality applies only to immutable characteristics at the individual level. Culture is a mutable group-level characteristic. Some cultures believe in sovereignty of the individual and freedom from the state. Others believe in total authority of the state and eating fucking bats. Stop equalising them or the issue will never be addressed. In fact, all it does is hand power to the culture that doesn't believe in the garbage equalising ideology by refusing to hold them to account.

I agree that they should sort out their own problems, but it doesn't stop other countries going to war with other countries in the name of Freedom, or that people give charitable donations to stop the Australian fires. If we all had that mentality then no one would help each other out globally. Tarring Citizens in the same brush is not ideal given that you have some good eggs and bad ones.

I don't really understand where I am equalising Culture, and given I can appreciate everyone's culture and their differences.

Look, I don't think that China can carry on the way they are but they will regardless of what we all think. It's a fantasy to wish that they can change for the better, but they won't, it is hopeful that we, as individual countries, hold them accountable for the Virus in the first place and tell them with a firm hand that we won't be nearly as lenient with interference with Business Espionage as we have been doing (given they have clearly taken the Graphite Techonology of bendable phones from a Manchester University).

 

[Papa]

I agree that they should sort out their own problems, but it doesn't stop other countries going to war with other countries in the name of Freedom, or that people give charitable donations to stop the Australian fires. If we all had that mentality then no one would help each other out globally. Tarring Citizens in the same brush is not ideal given that you have some good eggs and bad ones.

I don't really understand where I am equalising Culture, and given I can appreciate everyone's culture and their differences.

Look, I don't think that China can carry on the way they are but they will regardless of what we all think. It's a fantasy to wish that they can change for the better, but they won't, it is hopeful that we, as individual countries, hold them accountable for the Virus in the first place and tell them with a firm hand that we won't be nearly as lenient with interference with Business Espionage as we have been doing (given they have clearly taken the Graphite Techonology of bendable phones from a Manchester University).

That is not what I said, at all. I said that the Chinese people, as a group, are responsible for who they elevate to represent them. That is not something the rest of the world can solve for them with charity and #ThoughtsAndPrayers. That is something they need to solve internally, through revolution, and the rest of the world can play no part in that. If they won't/can't and continue to affect our lives in other countries, we destroy them and send them back to a state of third world poverty so they no longer have the means to affect us.