Odds are you will live.
Posted on 03/12/2020 7:14:06 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Trudeau’s wife has it. He wont be tested. He is going to quarantine
“Coronavirus vs. swine flu (H1N1) – 2009-2010”
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A lot of people are making the same mistake of claiming the first outbreak of Swine Flu was in 2009. Make me wonder if they actually spent any time at all researching (even a cursory Google search would be helpful) or if they are just copying someone else’s spiel to recycle. I remember it’s first time around in 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_swine_flu_outbreak
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtQ-DX7UjXc&feature=youtu.be&t=59
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is also being tested as one of his officials tested positive.
good post. thanks.
This is the one I am waiting for. I was hoping we would see something tonight
In my book, the media and Democrats have created pandamonia to throw the economy into turmoil to bring Trump down. There wasn’t this type of hysteria during H1N1, Swine Flu, Ebola, MERS, SARS, etc. but then Trump wasn’t president at those times.
Hopefully they (whoever they are) will have shot for it by next Autumn.
Actually the first swine flu was the 1918 Spanish Flu
Odds are you will live.
“Actually the first swine flu was the 1918 Spanish Flu”
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I think the experts may still be debating that. I believe it has something to do with which way the virus went - pig 2 man or man 2 pig or something along that line.
There’s long article on the CDC website about the 1918 flu.
“The Deadliest Flu: The Complete Story of the Discovery and Reconstruction of the 1918 Pandemic Virus”
It’s undated but appears to have been written for the 100 year anniversary. Anyway it contains this:
“In 1918, the world population was 1.8 billion people. One hundred years later, the world population has grown to 7.6 billion people in 2018.3 As human populations have risen, so have swine and poultry populations as a means to feed them. This expanded number of hosts provides increased opportunities for novel influenza viruses from birds and pigs to spread, evolve and infect people. Global movement of people and goods also has increased, allowing the latest disease threat to be an international plane flight away. Due to the mobility and expansion of human populations, even once exotic pathogens, like Ebola, which previously affected only people living in remote villages of the African jungle, now have managed to find their way into urban areas, causing large outbreaks.
If a severe pandemic, such as occurred in 1918 happened today, it would still likely overwhelm health care infrastructure, both in the United States and across the world. Hospitals and doctors’ offices would struggle to meet demand from the number of patients requiring care. Such an event would require significant increases in the manufacture, distribution and supply of medications, products and life-saving medical equipment, such as mechanical ventilators. Businesses and schools would struggle to function, and even basic services like trash pickup and waste removal could be impacted.
The best defense against the flu continues to be a flu vaccine, but even today, flu vaccines face a number of challenges. One challenge is that flu vaccines are often moderately effective, even when well matched to circulating viruses. But perhaps the biggest challenge is the time required to manufacture a new vaccine against an emerging pandemic threat. Generally, it has taken about 20 weeks to select and manufacture a new vaccine.”
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/reconstruction-1918-virus.html
It should be noted that coronaviruses can cause what amounts to a common cold, similar to rhinovirus infection. That’s why Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson thought they were just suffering from a cold when they were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
the biggest difference is that the dem/media complex has been trying desperately to politicize this virus and are actually hoping for mass death and economic collapse. I don’t recall any of the others to have been politicized.
Thanls, that’s interesting.
“The pandemic lowered the average life expectancy in the United States by more than 12 years.”
Whoaa!
An excellent read for all of the pearl-clutchers here at FR. Thanks for posting.
12 years! That is truly astonishing.
Did they ever actually say they were tested for Covid-19, or just for "coronavirus"?
I rad articles like this and try to figure out why people lie so much. According to this article, with the figures more relevant to our current situation dating in 2017-18, it indicates that flu is here every year and past virus appearances are far more dangerous that C-19.
Putting out articles from on line colleges partnered with Wikipedia, known to blow things out of proportion or just flat lie, is a further disgrace to the journalist industry.
Besides, they still can’t identify over 30 viruses that already exist. But if we over-react, the sky will fall.
rwood
Yup, and there are a lot of them. They thrive on hysterics, melodrama and panic.
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