The UK Daily Mail published a many-layered onion of an article back in July. You’ll forgive me for missing it at the time, since the story’s
real news was buried under a fake news headline. Let’s start with that: “
Healthy and fit father-of-three, 37, dies from the flu just five days after falling ill with a slight cough: 'It's like we are living in the 18th century’.”
Five days from cough to croaked? Sounds like
turbo-flu!
The headline was true to the extent that Australian Mate Babic, a healthy and fit 37-year old dad died
shortly after catching the flu.
The Daily Mail’s reporter either did a terrible job of trying to frame flu for Mate’s death, or she was secretly trying to smuggle out the true story. Either way, read the Mail’s description of his flu death and then let’s compare notes:
Carla contracted Influenza B early last week, and on Friday Mate had a slight cough, but was still going about his day as normal, cooking dinner for the kids and settling in for a night in front of the footy… On Tuesday night, the 37-year-old was struggling to sleep, running a high fever and suffering from sweats, shaking and bad bouts of coughing so he got up and ran himself a bath.
He walked back into the bedroom and sat on the end of the bed, where he died.
'It is just an absolute tragedy, I just don’t even know what to do. It doesn’t even seem real,' Carla said.
Um. Mate — who symptoms included a fever, sweats, and a cough — died
sitting on the end of his bed waiting for the tub. He never made it to the hospital. He never even
called the hospital. He never even stood up. Before Mate could gasp out a word of protest, flu struck him dead as a doornail, right there, perched on Carla’s best duvet.
Right before that he was
walking around, for crying out loud.
Is that like any flu death you ever heard of? Let us count the problems. First of all — and I shouldn’t even have to say this at this point in our collective involuntary viral-sciences education — nobody dies
‘from flu.’ People with bad cases of flu die from
complications like bacterial pneumonia, sepsis, or “exacerbation of chronic underlying conditions” (per CDC).
Just like covid, coincidentally. But I digress.
Flu doesn’t just strike people dead while they’re waiting around for a nice hot bath to fill up. The very idea is complete rubbish, poppycock.
Now add the fact that seasonal flu almost
never kills healthy 37-year-old dads. When it does kill, seasonal flu kills frail seniors and infants. Remember, we’re talking about
seasonal influenza, not 1918.
That’s why I called the article’s headline “fake news.” Even the Daily Mail’s reporters aren’t dumb enough to buy the pathetic story that Mate died “from flu.” It was probably a massive heart attack.
And
that was just the story’s outside layer. Now let’s peel back the onion.
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