[Blahagun]

What are you talking about? What drowning? The clinical picture hasn't been that different compared to previous years with outbreaks of respiratory illnesses. In fact in some countries the death rates have actually been lower. The only reason this year we are talking about it is because for some reason it became a huge media thing. There was no reason previous years to not talk about respiratory illnesses. They have always been serious thing and people are dying each year from them. They have always been dangerous to elderly people and people with other illnesses. I feel like I'm living in a parallel universe all of a sudden.

[tralarpa]

> The only reason this year we are talking about it is because for some reason it became a huge media thing

Well, something seems to be different this year:

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/