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Search results for "The flu disappeared worldwide when Covid appeared on the scene"

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Instagram posts stated on December 06, 2022 in a video:
There are a record high cases of flu in the U.S. this year, and “last year there were none.”
By Jeff Cercone• December 15, 2022
Facebook posts stated on July 19, 2021 in a post:
Video montage shows Kamala Harris and others faking vaccination.
By Monique Curet• July 27, 2021
Facebook posts stated on March 24, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says a pandemic occurs exactly every 100 years.
By Tom Kertscher• April 9, 2020
Facebook posts stated on May 21, 2022 in a Facebook post:
They passed the flu off as COVID-19, and “they’re going to do the same thing with monkeypox and shingles.”
By Jeff Cercone• May 26, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 18, 2021 in a Facebook post:
COVID-19 “has killed less people than the damn flu.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 27, 2021
Instagram posts stated on January 23, 2023 in a post:
Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome and “stroke season” didn’t exist before the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 24, 2023
Chad Wolf stated on February 25, 2020 in an exchange during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing:
The mortality rate for the flu is “right around” that of the new coronavirus: “It’s right around 2%.”
By Victoria Knight• March 2, 2020
Instagram posts stated on March 02, 2024 in an Instagram post:
“The CDC officially agrees with ‘conspiracy theorists’ from 2020” who wanted to treat COVID-19 like the flu.
By Jeff Cercone• March 8, 2024
Reiner Fuellmich stated on December 30, 2021 in a video:
"Even the WHO has conceded that the (SARS- CoV-2) virus … is no more dangerous than the common flu, with an infection fatality rate of 0.14%."
By Jill Terreri Ramos• January 19, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 06, 2020 in a Facebook post:
Says the Asian, Hong Kong, swine and bird flus each “killed more people than coronavirus.”
By Tom Kertscher• April 14, 2020
Instagram posts stated on May 12, 2024 in an Instagram post:
Bird flu in the U.S. is a "scamdemic" timed to coincide with the 2024 presidential elections “by design.”
By Jeff Cercone• May 24, 2024
Facebook posts stated on December 09, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Society is “choosing blood clots and heart problems over cold and flu symptoms, or even no symptoms at all.”
By Tom Kertscher• December 10, 2021
Facebook posts stated on July 08, 2020 in on social media:
Only 56 coronavirus deaths a day was enough to collapse the world economy, even though thousands of people die daily from tuberculosis, hepatitis B, and other diseases.
By Louis Jacobson• July 15, 2020
Dan Forest stated on September 02, 2020 in an interview:
"All evidence points to the fact that our kids are 17 times more likely to have ill effects from the seasonal flu than they are from the coronavirus.”
By Paul Specht• September 14, 2020
Gretchen Whitmer stated on April 15, 2020 in an April 15, 2020 press conference:
“During the flu pandemic of 1918, some cities lifted social distancing measures too fast, too soon, and created a second wave of pandemic.”
By Amy Sherman• April 17, 2020
Instagram posts stated on May 09, 2021 in an Instagram post:
The COVID-19 vaccine “will make the common cold/flu extremely lethal.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 11, 2021
Facebook posts stated on February 06, 2022 in a video:
“A grand jury trial begins into crimes against humanity" involving a fabricated coronavirus pandemic.
By Monique Curet• February 10, 2022
Facebook posts stated on February 02, 2022 in a post:
Turkey, Brazil, Britain, Sweden, Spain, Czech Republic, Mexico, El Salvador, Japan and Singapore canceled all COVID-19 quarantine procedures, testing and compulsory vaccination and are considering COVID-19 “just a seasonal flu.”
By Monique Curet• February 7, 2022
Facebook posts stated on April 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“The flu killed 80,000 people in the U.S. last year”
By Amy Sherman• May 6, 2020
Tom McClintock stated on April 29, 2020 in an interview on CapRadio's Insight program.:
“The flu killed 80,000 Americans last year according to the CDC.”
By Chris Nichols• May 5, 2020

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