Seasonal flu most often getting scant attention is what a real pandemic is all about.

During the 2018-19 flu season in the US alone, running from October to May, there were more than 35.5 million flu illnesses, over 16.5 million medical visits, about 490,600 hospitalizations, and around 34,200 deaths — with no fear-mongering pandemic headlines.

One time long ago I experienced seasonal flu. It drained my energy, killed my appetite, and debilitated me for about three days at home, not hospitalized — after which I felt fine and resumed normal activities.

I needed no potentially toxic drugs to recover. I rested mostly in bed and let the symptoms run their course which they did.

The Mayo Clinic calls COVID-19 a coronavirus strain that can range from asymptomatic to mild to severe, most cases in the first two categories.

People most vulnerable to experience severe symptoms are older with weak immune systems and anyone with chronic conditions like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and issues affecting the respiratory system.

Thailand Medical News (TMN) calls itself a leader in “breaking the latest credible research and developments with regards to the COVID-19 disease,” adding:

“(O)n every issue to date (about the disease), we have been proven correct while it has come to light that establishments like the WHO and the US CDC are the actual perpetrators of fake news and misinformation” that’s harmful to human health.

TMN warned that COVID-19 mutated into “eight distinct…strains…with different clinical manifestations (that are) mutating (further) on average every 15 days.”

Mutations “are fundamentally very similar to each other.” It’s unclear if mutations increase their virulence.

It’s known that COVID-19 is highly contagious, why protective measures are needed to contain its spread.

TMN believes COVID-19 is unlikely to peak or “end in the next few years.” Its archive has 1,173 articles on coronavirus over an extended period of time.

Perhaps like the 1918 -20 Spanish flu, the current outbreak may subside to be followed by one or more new strains that will infect unknown numbers of people.

It’s unknown how serious and long-lasting new strains will be to individuals in countries where they may appear — or what treatment protocols will be most effective.

TMN noted that Big Pharma and governments are taking advantage of COVID-19 to serve their financial and political interests respectively.

The website gets no government support, it said, adding:

It’s “based in a region where corruption, nepotism and ego” are rife. TMN should have explained that things are worse in the West.

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It claims hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin are ineffective in treating COVID-19 and may only produce “a dangerous placebo” effect.

I yield to medical experts to judge the veracity of this judgment.

The former is an anti-malarial drug, the latter an antibiotic used to treat respiratory and other bacterial infections.

They’ve been no clinical trials to show if either or both of these drugs are effective in treating COVID-19.

For most individuals ill from the virus, it’s for them (with professional medical advice) to decide if they’re willing to be guinea pigs.

All drugs have side effects. The more potent the drug, the greater the risk of harm to patients by causing other potentially serious issues.

Older individuals with weak immune systems who are dealing with other health issues are most vulnerable to be adversely affected.

Michel Chossudovsky explained what’s vital for everyone to know. In a detailed article I strongly recommend reading carefully, he said the following:

“The unspoken truth is that the novel (COVID-19) coronavirus provides a pretext to powerful financial interests and corrupt politicians to trigger the entire World into a spiral of  mass unemployment, bankruptcy, extreme poverty and despair.”

“This is the true picture of what is happening. ‘Planet Lockdown’ is an encroachment on civil liberties. Entire national economies are in jeopardy. In some countries martial law has been declared.”

“This crisis is unprecedented in World history. It is destabilizing and destroying people’s lives Worldwide. It’s a ‘War against Humanity.’ ”

“While it is presented to World public opinion as a WHO global health emergency, what is really at stake are the mechanisms of  ‘economic warfare’ sustained by fear and intimidation, with devastating consequences.”

“The economic and social impacts far exceed those attributed to the coronavirus.”

Medical science can resolve health issues. It’s powerless against dark forces that use an issue like COVID-19 for greater wealth and power at the expense of public and personal health, human and civil rights, and societies safe and fit to live in.

Today indeed is the most perilous time in world history. COVID-19 is being used by US-led powerful forces to convince ordinary people in the West and elsewhere to sacrifice personal freedoms for greater security.

Their aim is all about eliminating both by getting unwitting populations to accept what harms their well-being and futures.

It’s also about consolidating greater wealth and power, the public none the wiser.

Global and national crises are manufactured to serve the interests of dark forces.

What’s ongoing now is the mother of them all. The world as we know it is highly unlikely to be the same as COVID-19 plays out and when it ends.

In cahoots with the Obama regime, the Wall Street 2008-09 financial crisis is likely to seen as minor by comparison to a growing tsunami of poverty, unemployment, underemployment, homelessness, food insecurity, hunger, overall deprivation and human suffering in the West and elsewhere that’s unfolding in real time.

The human rubble will best be understood when the dust finally settles.

If dark forces behind what’s going on prevail, new world order tyranny in the US, West, and elsewhere will replace life as we know it — a grim prospect indeed without mass resistance to prevent loss of our welfare and personal freedom.

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Award-winning author Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at [email protected]. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)

His new book as editor and contributor is titled “Flashpoint in Ukraine: US Drive for Hegemony Risks WW III.”

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