Covid-19 and flu do share some similarities, but Covid-19 is not the same virus as the flu, despite claims on social media.
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This is false. Flu and Covid-19 infections do share some similar characteristics, but they are not the same virus.featuring a video calling on the police to investigate the government over Covid-19 and the Covid-19 vaccines includes a caption which falsely claims the virus is “a simple flu”. The caption says, in part: “They knew the pandemic was a big experiment on controlling the masses and that being as they knew it was a simple flu, they didn't need to bother social distancing. Remember, if it was that contagious and deadly, why would they have risked their own lives unless they knew of course.”
Covid-19 is not the same as influenza, and there’s no evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic was an “experiment on controlling the masses”, or that authorities “knew” that social distancing was unnecessary. Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve seen various posts on social media suggesting that Covid-19 is
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