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.
A conversation with my friend reminded me that we live in a world of injustice, where Harry Potter is a more popular kids book series than Fairy Oak and that is just not fair…
hello everyone! i never write original posts on here because i’m the worst admin ever but!! this is too exciting not to share! after many rumors and much trepidation the newest Fairy Oak book comes out in just a couple of weeks here in Italy! The title translates to “The Lost Story” (or History, can’t really tell by just the title) and it’s 440 pages long. this is the cover!
“The roots of populations are like those of trees: they consolidate the earth for future generations. And every story that’s lost, or forgotten, can contain many truths” says Elisabetta Gnone
Time has passed and many things have changed in Fairy Oak. Searching through the archives, twins Vanilla and Pervinca, and their friends of a lifetime, trace a lost history, and its protagonists’. And as their gaze brings us back to the marvelous valley of Greenvale, old friendships strengthen, new ones are born, new loves are declared and dreams become true. Everything began with a history lesson, went on with a legend and got complicated when every pupil at the honoured Horace McCrips School had to draw their family tree.
