The Strange Case of the Selective “Superflu”

Anglophilia is a characteristic of the dreaded influenza.

Ignorant people or profiteers on respiratory viruses have written wagonloads of nonsense.

We have sought to expose as many as possible. For example, some of these “experts” write that this or that virus “behaves” like this or that. Does a chair in your home “behave” in a certain way? Of course not. Neither do viruses, as they are not living beings lacking the capacity to reproduce autonomously (Year 2 medical school lesson).

But there is another, more insidious characteristic which is bubbling to the surface and is looking increasingly fake: Anglophilia.

The UK and Canada (apologies to the native and Francophone populations) seem to be subject to the “superflu” carnage. A brief phone call to colleagues in the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain has confirmed that the “superflu” has not been observed with any such commotion.

Oh, sure, you get the usual ILI winter spike, but no “carnage”. In Italy, the main topic was the war in Ukraine yesterday. Switzerland, which has joined the list of “superfl…