It really amazes me how anti science this website has become.
What you’re witnessing is a great reckoning for the scientific community. We’ll see if the orthodoxy still has the faculties to deliver truth with time. I think the community has been corrupted.
I see the opposite here, it's another take of outrage porn based on misinformation.
Good science would be having a hypothesis and doing scientific research on it. Science is based on hypothesis. It rarely gets to 100% but does work off of statistical significance. Whereas conspiracy theory regurgitation is based on opinion and story telling and does little to nothing to move science forward.
Let’s see how it unfolds. Most of us can’t do the science ourselves, but we can ask questions and observe.
> Perhaps the only reason why flu is harmless is because we don't fight it?
Without providing any evidence that viruses tend to become more dangerous when we combat them is anti-science. It's like saying: What if the earth is flat?
Consider successful viral eradication campaigns like smallpox or polio. There's no indication that smallpox became "super smallpox" as it was about to be eradicated. Nor is there a reason to think this would happen based on what we know about how viruses work. It's pure fear mongering on the basis of nothing at all.
Edit: There's so much wrong with the original post here. Not only is the flu sometimes deadly, as others have pointed out, but we already fight the flu with seasonal flu vaccines. Indeed, they seem to have a strong protective effect[1]. The flu doesn't seem to be getting stronger as a result any of this.