{"id":28727,"date":"2020-07-23T19:45:31","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T09:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28727"},"modified":"2020-07-23T19:45:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T09:45:31","slug":"australian-flu-stats-2009-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28727","title":{"rendered":"Australian Flu Stats 2009-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Australian_Flu_Stats_2009-2020-1024x725.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Flu Stats 2009-2020\" class=\"wp-image-28728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Australian_Flu_Stats_2009-2020-1024x725.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Australian_Flu_Stats_2009-2020-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Australian_Flu_Stats_2009-2020-768x544.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Australian_Flu_Stats_2009-2020.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I wonder why the flu numbers in June 2020 were .37 of a percent of what they were 12 months ago? Could it be that they are counting flu cases as COVID-19 cases to scare us all? Nah, couldn&#8217;t be that. Our government wouldn&#8217;t do that. How would the government benefit from a population so scared they would do anything the government told them to do? A government that would steamroller through parliament unpopular legislation during a lockdown, suspend the right to protest against the government, imprison whistleblowers and raid journalists&#8217; homes and offices, seize evidence, seal from public scrutiny for 99 years charges of child abuse by government ministers et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immunisationcoalition.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20Jul-Aust-Flu-Stats-2020.pdf\">https:\/\/www.immunisationcoalition.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20Jul-Aust-Flu-Stats-2020.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why the flu numbers in June 2020 were .37 of a percent of what they were 12 months ago? Could it be that they are counting flu cases as COVID-19 cases to scare us all? Nah, couldn&#8217;t be that. Our government wouldn&#8217;t do that. How would the government benefit from a population so &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=28727\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Australian Flu Stats 2009-2020&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28729,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28727\/revisions\/28729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}