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Re:Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealin... by mariojv on Monday December 21, 2020 @01:47PM (#25498007)
Your purported statistic about the flu is demonstrably false.

For the entire 2016-2017 flu season, not just January 2017, there were 14,400 deaths from the flu in France. [0]

The latest death count for COVID in France is 60,549, even after all the lockdown measures were put in place.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321906828_Influenza...

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Re:Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealin... by jmnicolas on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @04:54AM (#25504627)
INSEE is the official French statistics agency, not some conspiracy quack.

Sorry this is in French:

> En outre, l’épidémie de grippe hivernale amorcée fin 2016 a entraîné un pic de décès exceptionnel en janvier 2017 : 67 000 décès en France métropolitaine ce mois-ci.

Source: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3629105

It basically says there was an exceptional peak of 67k deaths due to the flu for the month of January 2017.

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Re:Russian opposition leader Navalny dupes spy into revealin... by enimodas on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @06:28AM (#25505209)
It doesn't say those were all from the flu. Yearly deaths = 606k = average 50k a month. January had 67k, so roughly 17k flu deaths.
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