It all really came together to make things far worse for young kids. The irony that those who have yet to start their lives are now having to suffer due to the ineptitude of so-called intelligent adults.
Regarding flu, I am not convinced there is a mystery here. One of the things that was resoundingly clear from my re-build of the history of flu research is that there was never an expectation that flu would circulate every year before the PCR era. So either flu changed after the 80s, to become truly annual as opposed to sporadic-annual, or flu remained sporadic-annual and PCR introduces extra detection compared to using observations of illness, ferret/egg isolation, and seropositivity to measure flu. The very first influenza A outbreaks recorded with those three measurements were 1935/36, 37, 39, 41, 43/44, 46/47 (https://unglossed.substack.com/i/64504855/home-run).
Flu remains sporadic after H1N1 reemerges from a lab and co-circulates with H3N2 in 1977.
So, the mystery of why PCR stopped flagging flu cases in 2020-21 is not interesting unless it can be shown by some other statistic that flu actually changed to be yearly. I haven't followed-up to see if such other statistics exist.
Would the level of international travel provide some insight, or is this another bit of noise in an otherwise messy dataset?
I don't have much to argue about the sporadic nature of the flu aside from the fact that we're told every year will be a "bad flu season" and it's only afterwards where we say "meh, nothing happened this season" but aside from that I guess I don't have much to work off of as well. It was just a hypothesis that juxtaposed the current RSV predicament.
It's possible that full-on globalization changed something after the 80s, but I would still want to see the "other statistic" validating the PCR-determined rates before accepting that there is a mystery to decipher.
I live in northern VA. Had coffee with a friend this morning who is a pediatric hospitalist at a large hospital. She said they are slammed with RSV and flu admissions in under-5s, and a number of them also, incidentally test positive for covid. What would the past 2 years have been like if we had all acknowledged this?
Sweden may be a good retrospective place to gain a lot of surveillance data on. I'm sure many people have already. Interestingly the data from Kim, et al. if it was to be believed would suggest that Sweden saw similar patterns as other countries, which may argue that RSV may be globally endemic (would that be a pandemic then?) while the flu likely migrates through international travel.
I meant to note in this article (although it got rather long) that I know of children who have gotten routinely sick but haven't gotten the COVID vaccine, with some of these kids starting school for the first time. Consider that kids in second grade may actually be going to school for the first time ever and it puts into perspective how many kids have essentially missed out on the close interactions that would spur typical, routine infections.
The media and government would have ignored it and the liberal parents would still have screamed that you're putting little tarquin at risk, by refusing the safe and effective poison.
If it's a personal question towards me Elaine, unfortunately (or possibly fortunately) I don't have any kids of my own.
I'd be hesitant to make any suggestions, but given that a lot of this is a consequence of not letting kids be kids- which includes letting them get sick- then the best bet may just be to allow children to get ill and catch up. The other alternative is to create more isolated children who never get sick, for any chance at getting sick may become more dangerous with age.
I think rather than be afraid of the inevitable, make sure that children are prepared with good nutrition, active lifestyle, and good rest so that they can tackle diseases better. It's definitely something that us as adults should practice more of!
Yep low immune exercise (exposure) and immunosupression by stress (poor diet, emf, food toxicity and vacsines toxicity). .
It all really came together to make things far worse for young kids. The irony that those who have yet to start their lives are now having to suffer due to the ineptitude of so-called intelligent adults.
Appreciate the highlight.
Regarding flu, I am not convinced there is a mystery here. One of the things that was resoundingly clear from my re-build of the history of flu research is that there was never an expectation that flu would circulate every year before the PCR era. So either flu changed after the 80s, to become truly annual as opposed to sporadic-annual, or flu remained sporadic-annual and PCR introduces extra detection compared to using observations of illness, ferret/egg isolation, and seropositivity to measure flu. The very first influenza A outbreaks recorded with those three measurements were 1935/36, 37, 39, 41, 43/44, 46/47 (https://unglossed.substack.com/i/64504855/home-run).
Flu remains sporadic after H1N1 reemerges from a lab and co-circulates with H3N2 in 1977.
So, the mystery of why PCR stopped flagging flu cases in 2020-21 is not interesting unless it can be shown by some other statistic that flu actually changed to be yearly. I haven't followed-up to see if such other statistics exist.
Would the level of international travel provide some insight, or is this another bit of noise in an otherwise messy dataset?
I don't have much to argue about the sporadic nature of the flu aside from the fact that we're told every year will be a "bad flu season" and it's only afterwards where we say "meh, nothing happened this season" but aside from that I guess I don't have much to work off of as well. It was just a hypothesis that juxtaposed the current RSV predicament.
It's possible that full-on globalization changed something after the 80s, but I would still want to see the "other statistic" validating the PCR-determined rates before accepting that there is a mystery to decipher.
I live in northern VA. Had coffee with a friend this morning who is a pediatric hospitalist at a large hospital. She said they are slammed with RSV and flu admissions in under-5s, and a number of them also, incidentally test positive for covid. What would the past 2 years have been like if we had all acknowledged this?
Sweden may be a good retrospective place to gain a lot of surveillance data on. I'm sure many people have already. Interestingly the data from Kim, et al. if it was to be believed would suggest that Sweden saw similar patterns as other countries, which may argue that RSV may be globally endemic (would that be a pandemic then?) while the flu likely migrates through international travel.
I meant to note in this article (although it got rather long) that I know of children who have gotten routinely sick but haven't gotten the COVID vaccine, with some of these kids starting school for the first time. Consider that kids in second grade may actually be going to school for the first time ever and it puts into perspective how many kids have essentially missed out on the close interactions that would spur typical, routine infections.
The media and government would have ignored it and the liberal parents would still have screamed that you're putting little tarquin at risk, by refusing the safe and effective poison.
What to do to protect your children?
If it's a personal question towards me Elaine, unfortunately (or possibly fortunately) I don't have any kids of my own.
I'd be hesitant to make any suggestions, but given that a lot of this is a consequence of not letting kids be kids- which includes letting them get sick- then the best bet may just be to allow children to get ill and catch up. The other alternative is to create more isolated children who never get sick, for any chance at getting sick may become more dangerous with age.
I think rather than be afraid of the inevitable, make sure that children are prepared with good nutrition, active lifestyle, and good rest so that they can tackle diseases better. It's definitely something that us as adults should practice more of!
Outdoor play, healthy food, little sugar, multivitamins and vitamin D. Zinc if they start to get sick.