Growing up, the evil boomers knew almost no one with food allergies (I am, btw, an evil boomer). The Government’s food meddling, in the name of public health, is responsible for rampant obesity. Its regulation of food companies (where regulation means sponsorship of a lobby in exchange for kickbacks) has left us with a culture that normalizes bad choices and protects the overweight from peer pressure. It is a culture where doctors are reluctant to tell their patients that obesity is bad for them.
Add the economic meddling that forces people to buy the bad food (cheaper) and the public benefits (like food stamps or SNAP) that allow its purchase, and you have the manifold of sins that have made Americans so unhealthy.
As bad as all that is, I’m still flabbergasted by the normalization of summer flu. Summer allergies were common, but no one got a cold, common or otherwise; yet here we are, in yet another August COVID case surge. Every late July to August, we see spikes in reported cases of the Wuhan flu and a rise in deaths attributed to it.
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Viruses don’t thrive in high temperatures. Windows are more likely to be down if you are driving. People are increasingly outdoors in the sun, in well-ventilated areas, and in much larger numbers, so what’s the explanation? The Google AI search bot, which is a crap-storm of sourcing from approved Handmaiden Media and similarly biased medical resources, says this.
COVID-19 cases tend to peak in August due to a combination of factors, including waning immunity from previous vaccinations or infections, increased indoor gatherings due to hot weather, and the emergence of more transmissible variants.
Vitamin D levels are significantly higher in a broader demographic during the summer, so I’m not buying the waning immunity argument. Yes, they assume that last year’s flu vaccine is what has waned (or antibodies from a winter-time infection), but all the new data suggest that people who get flu shots are more likely to get the flu. We know that human test subjects who have received the mRNA shot are more susceptible, so that certainly sets people up for a summer fail.
Johns Hopkins, clearly a source for the Google Bot, says,
Human behavior also plays a major role. As the weather gets hot, we spend more time in air-conditioned indoor spaces, where most virus transmission occurs, explains Andy Pekosz, PhD, a professor in Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. With the windows closed to keep the cool air inside, we restrict ventilation and air circulation that has shown to reduce virus spread.
Many people travel more during the summer, with roughly half of Americans surveyed saying they planned to travel more, farther, and for longer in 2024 than the year prior. Travelers are not only exposed to more people—including from regions with more COVID cases—but also may be more likely to write off mild symptoms as simply the result of jet lag, not illness. Tiredness, headache, or a sore throat—all common after a long flight—are also symptoms of COVID, and without testing to be sure, a traveler may unknowingly expose others.
I’m not a medical expert or a Google bot, but we have always had those things. If it’s very hot, the same people are indoors trying to escape the heat. Everyone is more likely to travel, pending the state of the economy and the availability of disposable income or tolerance for credit card debt. The only thing that changed was the release of an engineered virus, such that “Every summer since 2020, COVID rates have risen in July and August, due to a confluence of virological, behavioral, and environmental factors.”
The experts created it; They then crafted a cure that makes healthy people more susceptible to the flu, and they fearmongered and threatened them into getting it. The result is a population experiencing summer flu in greater numbers than anyone has ever seen or can recall, and the excuses abound.
On a positive note, summer COVID/flu has stabilized or waned as the years progress. It is also fair to say that summer flu has always been a thing, but we had no awareness of it because there was no political leverage to be gained or lost. That seems reasonable enough. But I’ve lived through sixty-two summers and around people of all ages and health situations, and no one got or died from flu in the summer, ever, until COVID-19 and the blessed “cure” came along.
