Dr. Martin Hash Podcast

There's lots of respiratory, meaning they affect your breathing, viruses, thousands maybe? The common flu is also a respiratory virus, which is why COVID19 is often compared to the flu, and rightly so regardless of any sanctimonious posturing about life & death you might hear. The various flu strains are estimated to kill about 50K people a year but the actual cause of death is normally listed as pneumonia, or fever. Contrarily, COVID19 is often listed as the cause of death, even when something else was the actual cause. COVID19 is only dangerous to people with compromised breathing, or weakened immune systems, usually the very old. There are no drugs that cure flu, and flu kills children but COVID19 rarely does. There are no cases of a child passing COVID19 to an adult. With a comparison like that, obviously health officials need to examine their priorities.

Masks don't prevent people from catching a virus because viruses are way too small. Masks just stop those who are contagious from sneezing on the food at the grocery store. However, masks seem to placate people; makes them think their doing something proactive even if they are ridiculous. Since only retirement-age people are at high risk; another plan would be for younger people to live their lives while those at risk self-quarantine. In fact, several nations, Sweden in particular, did not lockdown, but decided to let the virus spread naturally to obtain herd immunity while protecting their vulnerable, which worked and showed that lockdowns are primarily to facilitate authoritarians’ lust for power & control.