{"id":49296,"date":"2024-03-04T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49296"},"modified":"2024-03-04T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T22:18:55","slug":"is-covid-more-dangerous-than-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49296","title":{"rendered":"Is COVID More Dangerous Than the Flu?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022A huge business exists that revolves around making people afraid of the seasonal flu so vaccines can be sold each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Many of the fundamental ideas supporting this practice are erroneous or rest on a very shaky foundation\u2014for example, no one actually knows how dangerous the flu is and flu shots have been shown to make you more likely to become ill from the flu.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022Much of the COVID-19 playbook was copied from the one developed to sell flu shots. For this reason, understanding the malfeasance with the influenza vaccination program provides a valuable context for understanding what is happening right now and why treatments for these conditions are never allowed to see the light of day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwesterndoctor.com\/p\/is-covid-more-dangerous-than-the\">https:\/\/www.midwesterndoctor.com\/p\/is-covid-more-dangerous-than-the<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022A huge business exists that revolves around making people afraid of the seasonal flu so vaccines can be sold each year. \u2022Many of the fundamental ideas supporting this practice are erroneous or rest on a very shaky foundation\u2014for example, no one actually knows how dangerous the flu is and flu shots have been shown to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=49296\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is COVID More Dangerous Than the Flu?&#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-49296","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\/49296","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=49296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49297,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49296\/revisions\/49297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}