H1N1 should have been taken seriously. It was a significant problem.
Yes, my son [likely] had H1N1 and was sick for over a week. He was completely laid out, which was so unusual for him, and his recovery was slow. The clinic wouldn’t even allow me to bring him in. They diagnosed him over the phone, so it wasn’t an official lab diagnosis, but half his class of 37 (small charter school) were home sick as well, and some severely. I knew of a couple people that also came down with it, were hospitalized and nearly didn’t make it. I remember hospital emergency rooms were constantly packed.
Even though most people recovered, it still was very scary.
I cannot even imagine an outbreak of Ebola in the US. Yikes. I am praying that it doesn’t happen here, and that the current strain dies out without further deaths. :^(
But wait ... Africa isn’t there anymore. They all died from AIDS. Remember? We all KNEW that was coming. And it wiped out the Czech Republic, Thailand, Russia ...
After all our gays and promiscuous heterosexuals died in the ‘90s, there were still a few million left to die from the Bird Flu. And the Swine Flu. And the mutated Spanish Flu from 1918 that came back. And the dreaded Monkey Pox! And the other scares that I don’t remember.
Those idiot hijackers on 9/11 died in vain. All you need to do to terrorize Americans is say “Boo!”