During the 2019 flu season in Canada, 46k people were diagnosed with influenza. That’s not people who “felt sick”, that’s people who went to their doctor or emergency, had a test done, and were told “yup, that’s the flu”.
Of those 46k, 2000 had symptoms severe enough to be hospitalized so they could be monitored.
Of those 2000, 600 ended up in ICU, connected to machines to breath for them.
Of those 600, 200 died.
2019 had a fairly average flu season.
During the 2020 flu season, that was 69. Total. Zero hospitalization. Zero ICU. Zero deaths.
The 2021 flu season is almost over and since people were “more comfortable” this year not wearing masks where they should have been the numbers are higher, but still only in the hundreds of cases, with zero deaths to date.
If anyone tries to tell you masks don’t work, there are statistically at least 400 people who did not die of the flu who prove otherwise.
WE PROBABLY ELIMINATED TWO STRAINS OF INFLUENZA IN HUMANS. WE CUT TRANSMISSION SO MUCH THE STRAIN DIED OUT BECAUSE IT COULDN’T SPREAD TO PEOPLE.
I will forever be salty that masking dramatically reduced flu season for two years running and the message is still somehow that saving people from deadly/disabling disease just isn’t worth not seeing peoples’ mouths.
The U.S. government has cleared Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner for release. Hassan bin Attash has been jailed by the U.S. for the last 20 years, even though has never been charged with a crime. He was just 17 years old when he was captured in Karachi by Pakistani security services in 2002 and turned over to the United States. Attorneys say Attash was tortured by the U.S. and its allies for up to 12 hours a day over a two-year period, including at a CIA black site. The Biden administration says Attash will remain at the Guantánamo Bay prison while it tries to find a country willing to offer him rehabilitation.
The fact that there are people willing to torture someone for hours, guilty or not, should concern you about the governments of the US and its allies. No one tortures out of the good of their heart, and victims of US government torture have said that people doing the torturing are sadistic about it–even taking pictures. Look into the Abu Ghraib torture cases.
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