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Originally Posted by boxcar

FDA: Americans Should Treat COVID-19 Like the Flu

Several top Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials, including Commissioner Robert Califf, admitted that Americans will now have to accept COVID-19 as another respiratory virus, comparing it to influenza.

Califf, Principal Deputy Commissioner Janet Woodcock, and top vaccine official Dr. Peter Marks wrote for the Journal of the American Medical Association that COVID-19 will be around for the foreseeable future while suggesting that it will require yearly vaccines targeting the most threatening variations of the virus....

The virus “will likely circulate globally for the foreseeable future, taking its place alongside other common respiratory viruses such as influenza. And it likely will require similar annual consideration for vaccine composition updates in consultation with the [FDA],” they continued.

But all of us remember what happened when Trump suggested this, right?

It’s a departure from the rhetoric that was expressed by public health officials in 2020 and 2021. In late October 2020, for example, current White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci said that President Donald Trump’s comparisons to the flu were false, telling NBC at the time “it is not correct to say it’s the same as flu.”

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fda-am...QGuStRr5Mn4%3D

You meathead liberals should listen to your conservative friends when we speak. Most conservatives were way out ahead of the curve on this -- just on the basis of raw statistics alone. Do you meatheads recall that there was virtually no flu season in 2021? And do you remember that the overall death rate for any and all causes for last year was virtually the same as previous years'?

In other words the left's reaction to covid was extreme to say the least! We didn't have to kill the economy, do lockdowns, wear face diapers, disrupt children's lives, do mandates, etc., etc.. We didn't have to! Sweden didn't and that country is doing fine. And now the FDA finally comes clean, conveniently just before the mid-terms, to tell us that there's not much difference between covid and the flu.

Wow! Thanks for the big breaking news, FDA!

You don’t get it. The comparison to influenza is not because they are of equal severity. It’s because both will be with us permanently. Both will require annual vaccination.