The test on which all lockdowns, social restrictions, and vaccine mandates were based could not distinguish between SARS-CoV-2 and Influenza.
That’s the real reason “the flu disappeared” during that era. (Not the lies Scientific American published in the linked propaganda article.)
Proof of this from the CDC was originally at this link but has now been deleted. Here it is in Archive.org while it lasts:
For further proof, this was also documented at GenomeWeb:
Everything they put us through was based on an overly sensitive 45 cycle PCR test which couldn’t distinguish between coronaviruses and influenza. It had a false positive rate as high as 95% by registering “meaningless, dead nucleotides” to quote Fauci.