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No knowledge of seasonality, no knowledge of the disappearance of the flu, no knowledge of natural immunity, no knowledge of vaccine side effects. These "experts" don't know much, do they?

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Who ever thought we’d still be arguing over seasonality, mask effectiveness, and natural immunity after nearly two years. Especially when there is so much evidence staring at us.

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covidcindence

/kəʊvɪdˈɪnsɪd(ə)ns/

(noun)

a remarkable concurrence of contagions without causal relation to the measures imposed to contain them.

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You could almost set your watch by the public health clowns' antics.

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It is more likely that they will say that rising cases in the NE are due to vaccination rates not being high enough. ‘Unless we can get 85,90,95,100% of the population vaccinated, we will never reach herd immunity.’ There has been far too much social (and real) capital spent on vaccines for them to ever change the narrative that they are the only way out of the pandemic.

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Nothing can ever be acknowledged unless it drives vaccination and supports human action being responsible for every rise and fall. No matter what evidence they see

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Jeez! It has been clear since the summer of 2020 that Covid-19 is seasonal. And given our knowledge of respiratory viruses what reason would you have to suggest otherwise. They can’t be this incompetent. Therefore, they must be corrupt and incompetent. And they take us for fools.

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Good lord, do these people not step outside of their own research bubble? Some of us have known this since spring, 2020.

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"the virus is mostly not seasonal" -CNN

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Eugyppius made a similar observation recently, when a German transplant immunologist was interviewed by The Welt. She played the same game, blaming seasonality for raising winter/ high season case numbers and claiming vaccine effectiveness for summer/low season drops

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Who are they going to blame in NYC this winter? Staten Islanders? There aren’t any moderates left in Manhattan.

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This is like intimate partner violence... A clear vicious circle in perpetuity. N many of us are the battered partner 🙄

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Aren't they planning on retiring the PCR tests on Dec 31 of this year so that they can just retire the Rona when it reaches the mostly blue Northeast? That'll be a fun trick.

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https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/seasonality-a-story-in-pictures

More information to back up this assertion, with bonus pictures! The seasonality of the virus has been clear since last summer, and that's how the 'seasonality theorists' told people where to expect the summer spike (when Fauci had no idea why Texas numbers were dropping in spring). We also told you that after the summer spike recedes, we'll see a fall lull. That's happened now. Next is the winter wave that crashes over the entire country.

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Let's try and keep this going as long as there are fools who believe - right? (Too many, sadly, do indeed!)

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Seasonality for respiratory viruses has been well understood for DECADES. There are hundreds of studies about it. It's common knowledge, or at least was until the Great Forgetting of 2020. And seasonality doesn't mean "gets worse in the winter," because that's only true in certain regions. But since the NY Times and other media are based in New York, and since NYC is the Center of the Universe, they can't grasp the fact that flu season isn't the same in other parts of the country. Because who cares about other parts of the country.

BTW, humidity is important. If you're in a northern region, get those humidifiers out.

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