Surprising Rise In UK Flu Cases Given Flu Had Been Eradicated During Covid-19!

The point or problem or whatever you want to call it is, that the common cold, the flu and Covid-19 are all members of the same family of viruses and without analysis in a laboratory you cannot tell which of them anyone is infected with.
Furthermore the very same measures are effective against all of them, wearing masks and social distancing reduces the spread of all these viruses, therefore the lockdowns, mandating wearing masks and all the other things they did against Covid-19 had the very same effect against the flu.

So NPI's -- wearing masks and social distancing -- worked against the flu but not against Covid? How do you explain that? Remember, we were told during 2020-2021 that the common strains of influenza had all but disappeared but meanwhile Covid was allegedly raging through the population.

Also, there's a reason they call it the "flu shot" and not the "flu vaccine". There's never been a claim that it's sterilizing, not to mention the fact that each year's formulation (in the States at least) is a crap shoot based on the previous season's strain from Australia. At best, it's still only effective in a small minority of the people who get it. Whether more people were getting those shots a couple years ago wouldn't explain why the flu allegedly disappeared.

Yeah, exactly what I was getting at. That graphic really rams it home.

It was so utterly stupid even at the time - I remember laughing about how ridiculous it was even at the time but yet people completely swallowed it that flu had completely disappeared!

It just depends how long it will still take until average people realize that all doctors, all hospitals and all pharma companies make more profit from sick people than from healthy ones.
In fact it goes far further than that, because all the ones warning about the above also make their money only as long as the above keeps going.

How a solution that would really work in the best interest of the general population would look, I don't know, because so far money interests have always found holes in the system how they could keep their profit going.
Probably eduction and I mean a massively increased level of education, so that average people could see through this themselves without depending on "experts" publishing things about it, could help.

Personally I have developped the habit of triple checking everything concerning my health.
Of course I see a doctor when I feel sick and of course I listen to what he has to say, but as soon as I get home I research the web about everything the doctor just told me and then as 3rd step I look up the scientific literature about this particular case of health problem.
I.e. I had surgery for hernia twice (once per side) last year and I knew all about it before I went to see my doctor for the first time. Was a very short visit at the doctor, told him I believe I have an hernia, he took a look at it for less than 10 seconds, confirmed it and made me an appointment in the hospital. After the first surgery the surgeon told me he had seen the other side would have the same problem soon, I went home to check the web, found loads of articles all saying "one hernia rarely comes alone" and went for the second surgery a few months later.

"The B/Yamagata lineage was not isolated from April 2020 to August 2021, suggesting that this influenza lineage may have become extinct. Epidemiological and evolutionary characteristics of B/Yamagata viruses, combined with suppressive conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, may have facilitated strong suppression of global B/Yamagata circulation and the potential extinction of this lineage. "

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-021-00642-4

All they had to do was run the PCR Test cycles until it threw covid positives. All planned.