I don’t remember it being nearly this bad during H1N1. It seems like they were on the ball, testing early and had triage tents at hospitals everywhere. And it was not nearly as deadly as this one. Why the difference?
They weren’t trying to unseat an elected president.
H1N1 had a very low mortality. It spread to a billion people because it wasn’t taken seriously enough. Had it been even close to as dangerous as COVIS-19, it would have been a disaster.
My guess...they realized what it was and they tried to cover it up. Remember H1N1 was before Hong Kong went native. It was still open there. They couldn’t hide it.