We even excoriated governors and mayors for their overreaction back then
Now look at us
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Great
Now it’s 11pm
10 more hours to wait until the next White House briefing...
I look forward to learning how many deaths there were for this flu/cold season and we better learn PDQ no later than July...
Yeah, sure.
And Wikipedia has been trying to change the name from “Spanish Flu”.
Irrelevant arguments are irrelevant.
What’s your point? /s
900,000 hospitalized AND not a word about running out of masks, or supplies REALLY, WTH???
And yet China reported no flu deaths that season. Hmmm
And health care system wasn't overwhelmed.
Gee, could many of the cases and death been a result of Corona?
Just a quick example of this idiocy from a personal story.
In 2017 I went to the hospital 3 times.
At one point the virus had infected my sinus, lungs and throat.
Felt like someone was pulling a fish hook on my esophagus on the right side.
Then knitting needles were being forced through my eyes, from the inside.
Headache that was mind numbing.
Then my teeth started hurting and I ended up with an abscessed tooth.
Took 3 doctors before I was directed to a dentist who said he could not pull my tooth until the infection went away.
two week later and more antibiotics infection was still there.
Then two more weeks later and antibiotics still had infection.
Dentist said he was comfortable pulling the tooth and felt certain more antibiotics and time would be curative.
Told him “Eff it” Pull it out.
He did and the other symptoms passed in 3 days.
All this from the flu.
The upside is that side of my jaw doesn’t hurt as much from my bruxism. Still hurts but not like it did when that tooth was there.
I had the flu 4 times that season....
Last October I got the flu shot and except for a mild case of whatever in January that didn’t even make me flinch I feel like a champ this season.
Best flu season in 20 years...for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_United_States_flu_season
In January 2018, The Atlantic also noted that the severity of the flu season in the United States may have been increased by a shortage of IV bags in hospitals. The shortage resulted from the Hurricane Maria blackout in Puerto Rico, where a great many medical supplies are manufactured.
And yet, still, out of 45 million flu illnesses that year, if 80,000 died, then the death rate was 0.2%.
In comparison, if the death rate for COVID19 remains at 1.4% in the U.S., then 630,000 people would die. And, if our hospitals are running low on supplies, that death rate may increase, just like Italy's.
No, that doesn't mean the country should be shut down completely. It doesn't mean a $2T stimulus package should be passed. But, come on, COVID19 is worse than influenza.
Ironically, this year could end up being one of the lowest death count on record for all flus (including CV19) given all the precautions people are taking.
Italy has a flu death rate per population 4-6 times ours.
That corona found a home there isn’t surprising
Old
Smokers
Density
Not Europe’s best healthcare ....that would be Switzerland
Has had a competent government of administrators since Il Dulce learned gymnastics the hard way
If this malaria treatment doesn’t work we are in for around 630,000 deaths. I am praying it works.
Romney is self isolating. Lol. Lots of filthy rich are doing the same. Hell, I’d be living in my high desert home with 10,000 acres if I had one.
I don't recall it becoming a worldwide or even a national obsession.
More proof that the power of media and the internet can take a normal, yearly event and blow it completely out of proportion.
This is the world we live in folks. The lemmings running off the cliff have been given the power through the uber-connected world to not just get the local lemmings to run off the cliff but they can now get all lemmings world-wide to get in a plane, fly to the local area, get a rental car, drive to the cliff in question and then...run off it.
JoMa
A logical conclusion would be that (unidentified) Chinese virus was circulating last Fall.
CDC own numbers on the site below don’t get that high but 2017-2019 was the worst by far. The worst week of that flu season saw 1,698 deaths. We are at 347 from 19.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ go to graph and hit data. Flu year is from week 40 to 39 the next year.
They just estimate the flu deaths, and they add tens of thousands of pneumonia cases in too. Only a few hundred to a few thousand flu deaths a year. It is a big scam.
“Official annual respiratory viral surveillance data for the seasons 1976–1977 through 1998–1999 have shown that a mean of only 12% of “influenza specimens” actually tested positive for influenza virus.4 Between 1999 and 2001, there was positive confirmation of influenza virus for fewer than 10% of deaths recorded as caused by influenza. Although this proportion has increased in recent years (14% in 2002, 23% in 2003, 18% in 2004), in the absence of testing, cause of death is still only speculative.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2374803/