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Michael Brown disparages the efficacy of Facemasks and Social Distancing in controlling infection.Yet look at the virtual elimination of Influenza during the winter of 2020/21:From the USA:"A year full of social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing and staying at home to prevent coronavirus spread rendered the 2020-2021 influenza season practically nonexistent.Public health and clinical laboratories reported 2,038 flu cases during the season from Sept. 27, 2020, to April 24, 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency estimated about 38 million people were sick with the flu during the 2019-2020 season.'It’s been an amazing year,' said Dr. John Swartzberg, a professor emeritus of infectious diseases at the University of California, Berkeley in the school of public health. 'In all my years of being a flu watcher … I’ve never seen anything like this'."https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/05/10/flu-cases-historically-low-during-covid-what-expect-fall/7088318002/Or from the UK (22/02/21):"No flu cases were detected in the last seven weeks thanks to ‘changes in our behaviour’, Public Health England (PHE) has said.According to the latest PHE data, its respiratory datamart flu surveillance system detected no influenza positive samples between 28 December 2020 and 14 February 2021."https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinical-areas/immunology-and-vaccines/no-flu-cases-detected-in-england-this-year-to-date/

Richard Cathcart ● 1269d

JP: "Anyway, as to MB The answer is don't respond if you never get the answer. Some have been asking the same question for 10 years."RC: (Assuming that is addressing my post previous) Of course I don't expect an answer from MCB, whether over his Holocaust Denial or any of the other demonstrably false claims he has made down the years.But my questions are not for his benefit, since he is so far "down the rabbithole" as to be irretrievable. In fact I would happily leave him there, except for the effect he may have on others.For as we have seen recently with Covid, and more generally down the years with other Conspiracy nonsense, not every Conspiracist is like MCB, whose delusions stem from the fact that he thinks he knows better than everyone else, with the rest of us mere "sheeple" etc.In fact during times of uncertainty (war, famine, natural disasters, economic collapse etc) some otherwise decent people may become susceptible to such theories to "explain" their misunderstandings and assuage their fears etc. So that in this case, they may begin to listen to his nonsense over Vaccination and 5G etc, and so get sucked down the rabbit hole with him.Whereas if it is demonstrated that he is so deluded, arrogant and offensive as to claim that even something so undeniable as the Holocaust is just another "conspiracy" (by the Jews?), then it is to be hoped that all right-thinking people will also question the other bullsh1t conspiracy claims he comes out with.

Richard Cathcart ● 1268d