Posted on 10/01/2020 12:17:11 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Imagine the reaction of the public to a new virus outbreak that targeted children, sending 10 times as many to hospitals, and killing 13 times as many as COVID-19.
Would you call the government’s handling of this pandemic a success?
That is what happened in 2009 when the H1N1 – aka, the swine flu – pandemic swept across the land. While the total number of deaths from the swine flu was much lower than COVID-19, its impact on children and younger adults was far more severe.
Consider these numbers:
According to the Centers for Disease Control’s latest numbers, out of the more than 200,000 people who died with COVID-19, only 92 were under age 18.
But 1,282 children died from the H1N1 pandemic of 2009-2010, when Barack Obama was in the White House and Joe Biden was vice president.
The number of children hospitalized from COVID has been around 8,000. The number hospitalized because of H1N1 – 86,813.
The swine flu was particularly worrisome because, unlike COVID and the seasonal flu – this one targeted the young more than the elderly.
In fact, fully 10% of the deaths from H1N1 were age 17 or younger, while just 13% were over age 65...
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The crazies don’t care.
Unfortunately, the kids didn’t have their own labor unions to lobby for school closures.
He’s not only a murderer,he’s a lech.
The link to the second stat is effectively dead, while it seems to refer to the global deaths. I read that H1N1 killed 282 U.S. children in 2009-2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.
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