re: #306 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

This claim, now popular, that various locales had SARS-Cov-2 way back in early fall and thus the majority are immune by now… is on the level of silliness that creationism occupies on the scale of not-even-wrong.

Put simply, given there have been surges in hospitalizations and deaths the past three weeks, proving that Covid-19 is serious and lethal, with our current tested rates, why were there not similar hospitalizations and deaths last fall if so many people were infected?

They are completely (and conveniently) ignoring the Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and Influenza B/Victoria going around this flu season. I don’t believe either of these strains were anticipated in the flu vaccines produced in 2019. (Please correct me if I’m wrong on that.) These are particularly nasty this year as well.

I’ve read there’s been half a million hospitalizations from these flu viruses alone and if COVID-19 wasn’t a thing, this flu season would be all over the news. If you got really sick before November, and possibly if you did after. You had the flu. COVID-19 wasn’t secretly getting around the US months before the first case in Wuhan (November 17).