The Non-Existent Flu Cases of 2020
American Thinker,
by
Gerald McGlothlin
Original Article
Posted By: DVC,
5/28/2025 12:33:23 PM
In 2020, the United States faced the shock of a new pandemic -- 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 "too low to estimate," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with later estimates at a mere 2000.
That’s not just a statistical anomaly -- it’s a statistical impossibility. From an estimated 48 million cases in 2019–2020, the flu dropped to 2000 cases, statistically zero, in 2020–2021, amounting to a 99.999998% decrease --
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 5/28/2025 12:42:07 PM (No. 1956547)
FTA:
"This isn’t a wild theory. It’s a demand for accountability. It’s a reminder that statistics are not immune to distortion -- especially when power, money, and politics converge.
COVID-19 was real. So is the flu. But the statistical vanishing act of influenza in 2020 was not a miracle of masking or sanitizer -- it was the product of an incentivized and politicized healthcare environment."
You get more of what you incentivize. ALWAYS. A hospital gets $13K for each report of COVID. It gets $39K for every patient put on a ventilator. Gee......miraculously there were suddenly no flu cases and a LOT more Wuhan virus cases
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Roads 5/28/2025 12:50:22 PM (No. 1956549)
Hospitals and clinics, got paid big time for treatment of Covid, not the flu. So, hence, everything became Covid.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/28/2025 12:53:45 PM (No. 1956551)
The common cold also disappeared miraculously. Anytime anybody has anything, it is now covid.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 5/28/2025 12:56:09 PM (No. 1956554)
Re #1
It was certainly misleading data from the hospitals and people did let their fear cloud their judgement.. And here comes the Biden Admin waddling into the center of it, taking advantage of a good crisis like only the Democrats can do. Biden himself was barely cognizant of current events, and with the recent revelations about his degenerated cognitive ability, the policy was strangely coherent. Just more proof that an unelected group from Biden's inner circle were actually calling the shots.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JimBob 5/28/2025 12:56:38 PM (No. 1956555)
Yep!
Follow the Money!
I recall a guy got killed in a motorcycle crash...... but it was listed as 'COVID' so that Uncle Sugar would pick up the cost of treating the guy at a hospital.
Then with the HairSniffer regime, the real EVIL appeared..... Effective, inexpensive preventatives and treatments used overseas with great success were prohibited.
Expensive, ineffective treatments -that made Caboodles of Cash for Big Pharma were mandated.... the Clot Shots, which again made Billions for Big Pharma -and I understand Million$ for Fauchi.... were mandatory for Military and Federal personnel and for countless others.
All the Evil aftereffects of the Clot Shot were hushed up..... Unexplained huge, fatal blood clots, pro Soccer players dropping dead on the field from heart attacks...... now we're hearing about 'Turbo Cancers'..... in young people, things that were never seen before the Clot Shots.
I'm glad I retired before all this happened!
I never took the Clot Shot..... and I Never Will!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
VietVet68 5/28/2025 1:18:34 PM (No. 1956563)
This just proves there was money to be made with COVID, the flu...not so much.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ashley Brenton 5/28/2025 1:22:24 PM (No. 1956564)
Wasn't it reported via leaked emails or a whistleblower a governor (Wisconsin or Minnesota?) told his Health Department to "get creative" when covid hospitalizations were not happening enough to justfy shutting down the state economy? Pretty sure that was a thing. So a positive test result on someone there for an appendectomy became a covid hospitalization.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 5/28/2025 1:37:18 PM (No. 1956569)
If a patient in 2020 tested positive for covid, manifested covid-like symptoms, or was even thought by medical staffer to have covid was logged as covid. Since every cold or flu hits one or more of those flags, everything was covid. And it was all about padding the stats rationalizing the lockdowns and absentee balloting.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
FLCracker 5/28/2025 1:43:10 PM (No. 1956572)
Mr. McGlothlin missed a possibility: Perhaps exposure to covid made you immune to the flu.
Exposure, like somebody driving by with a mask on, standing 71" from another human being, being inside without a mask on, being outside without a mask on, shopping at a store without a piece of plexi-glas between you and the clerk, entering any educational institution, hearing a covid public announcement, reading a covid newspaper headline, touching a "what to do about covid" brochure, etc, etc, etc.
You get my drift - any of that would make you immune to the flu.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
hershey 5/28/2025 2:08:51 PM (No. 1956585)
Sounds like they were jiggering the figures to keep Biteme from looking bad, again...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
red1066 5/28/2025 2:12:52 PM (No. 1956591)
We were saying the same thing back then. Why is everything Covid? All those Covid tests did was confirm the existence of the flu. Then the stories of motorcycle deaths and heart attack deaths being Covid related started showing up. The thing was a lesson in follow the money.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 5/28/2025 2:29:19 PM (No. 1956601)
Never forget that their "gold standard DNA testing" for the Wuhan virus was a pure fraud, too.
They later admitted to NOT HAVING ANY SAMPLES OF the Wuhan virus available when they made the DNA test. So, they used a "similar corona virus sample" for the primer for the DNA test. So, their test would find ANY AND ALL corona viruses.
And they pumped the 'amplification factor' up massively. If you actually HAVE the Wuhan virus, your swab will be swarming with thousands of virus particles. So, using a lower level of 'amplification' (how many times the sample was thermally cycled) will show up a positive. BUT, if you have (like essentially EVERYONE at that time) two or ten virus particles in your nose, then you need to amplify those very few virus particles by running the cycle times up. If they set the cycles of amplification to 25, they multiple the number of virus particles by 335 million times.....WAY plenty to detect a legitimate Wuhan virus case, which starts with tens of thousands of virus particles in the sample.
But, "turn up the volume to 11" so to speak, by using a 40 times amplification cycle, and now you get an amplification factor of 2^40, which is 1 trillion times amplfication.....plenty enough to get a positive reading from a couple of virus particles in the sample.....which nearly every person alive and breathing at the time would have in their nose. So, using 40 cycles, as the CDC was recommending, would get a positive result from essential EVERYONE.
By the time the antigen type home tests came out, much later, they were actually more accurate tests, almost certainly, than the BS "gold standard DNA" tests the CDC hyped at first.
Tests which were for ANY coronavirus and which were intentionally over cycled to amplify ANY virus particles into a positive tests......MORE CDC fraud, for certain.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bpl40 5/28/2025 5:30:40 PM (No. 1956653)
2020 was also the year Donald Trump was seeking reelection. That ‘Trumped’ everything else.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/28/2025 6:44:18 PM (No. 1956672)
Hosptals were paid more for covid patients. Some were testing patients already deceased due to other causes. So we had "died with ovid" $$ $$$$
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 5/28/2025 7:32:35 PM (No. 1956693)
Just a correction from the article: Dr. Scott Jensen was not a MN U.S. Senator. He was, however, the Republican candidate for governor against Tampon Tim. (To no surprise, Walz was afraid to debate him and only did so at a public fair and on an obscure television program. Walz also made sure that the State investigate Dr. Jensen several times for medical malfeasance -- taking a lesson from Joe Insane Biden and Barack Hussein Obama.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
anniebc 5/28/2025 9:06:26 PM (No. 1956721)
Check the stats on deaths caused by all kinds of diseases; they're all down due to most deaths being attributed to covid.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
felixcat 5/29/2025 7:56:11 AM (No. 1956846)
Speaking go Covid, very disappointed to se Newsmax had Deborah Birx on one of their shows. She has zero credibility to discuss anything concerning Covid, flu, measles, anything medical.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 5/29/2025 9:04:01 AM (No. 1956883)
The scariest part of the Covid lockdowns, for me anyway, was the government designating jobs (and those doing those jobs) as either 'essential' or 'non-essential'. That type of language applied by our government to American citizens can lead to very bad things. What does one do with things that are 'non-essential'. They end up in the dump. As far as $$$ incentives go for hospitals to pump up their Covid numbers, the following is an example I saved off from 2020: https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/man-who-died-in-motorcycle-crash-counted-as-covid-19-death-in-florida-report-07-18-2020
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