https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-spain-science-idUSKBN23X2HQ

Probably because the tests can't distinguish between the novel COVID-19 virus, and the FLU.

Maybe it can't distinguish because there IS no difference to distinguish, eh?

Influenza is a coronavirus as well...

Hmmm.....

Maybe COVID is literally "just the flu, bro".

What I'm concerned about is that they'll release something a lot worse and call it a "mutation" and then blame it on all the people who didn't strictly comply with quarantines and social distancing.  They may even claim that the patient zero for this mutation was present at a Catholic Mass or something to ban the exercise of religion even further.

Maybe COVID is literally "just the flu, bro".

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I'm actually not a fan of that phrase. "Bro" is the new leftist insult for men, as it implies that they go around addressing each other as "bro", which is an immature way to talk. It's how teenagers and college kids talk, but grown men don't speak this way. The left is accusing all men of having that mental age.
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Here's an example of what I'm talking about. It's pretty obviously written from a strongly feminist/leftist point of view. "Tech bro" is a variation on the term, insulting men who are IT professionals. If you search for the term "bro culture" you'll get tons of stuff attacking men for being men.
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I'd call the term a bit of a dog whistle for feminism and leftism.
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EDIT: Forgot to mention my main point: "Just the flu, bro" is actually a left-wing insult for people who are not brainwashed by COVID19 propaganda. At least that's how I've seen it used.

What's clear is that actual mortality rate is extremely low. They've admitted that 10x the number of people have had it than have been officially diagnosed/confirmed, which means that the actual morality rate is at least 10x lower.

All completely true, of course, but just as significant is what is revealed by comparing official European and US morbidity statistics for the period from February 1 to mid-June for this year and each of the past three years. Links to several of those releases were published here at CathInfo back in April. All of them reveal the same thing: during the period in question, there were no more deaths in the West, either as a percentage or as a raw count, in 2020 than in 2017, 2018, or 2019. In some weeks there were fewer.

For the benefit of the few who might fail to understand the significance of these data, the primary indicator of a health crisis is the increase in the number of human deaths relative to (1) recorded deaths during the same period in prior years and (2) well-founded statistical assumptions regarding how many people might be expected to die at a given time of the year in the absence of unusual climatic conditions and catastrophic natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes, blizzards, heat waves). In short, more people die, and they die younger, when a major disease strikes or natural patterns depart from the norm.

If covid-19 were truly the danger to the human species that our deceitful rulers insist it is, the number and percentage of deaths would be significantly higher this year than in the past several. See above: they aren't!

Interesting post, claudel. I've been wondering about those sorts of statistics for a while now too. Do you have a link to a simple place where it gives mortality statistics during this situation?

If you are a trained statistician, simply go to the Euromomo site and begin reading. If you aren't, open up a search engine—preferably one such as Startpage or Gibiru that doesn't track you or report you to the government—and use the search term "euromomo data". What ought to strike you right off the bat is that every link on the first three pages of results is from a mainstream source with its knickers in a twist as it claims that the morbidity data don't adequately reflect the harm covid-19 is doing!

This of course is what the Jєωs mean by chutzpah. The government and media aren't content with requiring physicians and hospitals to assume that any death not traceable to something like a fall from a window or a highway accident is attributable to covid-19—a directive dating back to March that had the sole intent of falsifying data. Now (((they))) want us to believe that those deaths by misadventure and all similarly unrelated deaths should be attributed to covid-19, and they are angry that the unmassaged statistics fail to back up their assertions.

As Knut Wittkowski demonstrated three months ago, the "safety" measures are doing people immeasurably more harm than doing nothing at all would have done. The wearing of masks is demonstrably linked to illness and even death from hypoxia (insufficient oxygen intake) and hypercapnia (excessive CO₂ intake). But for typical power-mad Establishment types, a fortiori for Deep Staters, deaths from disorders that are negatively related to covid-19 "safety" measures are bad data and hence cancelable—along with the people who cite them.