Learning From History: COVID-19 vs. H1N1-09: What a difference a decade can make

To reflect on what happened in 2009 regarding the H1N1 (swine flu) pandemic, it is difficult to understand how the government response isn't an overreaction by comparison.

A review of the data reveals some vital distinctions:

Not as many elderly were at risk or affected (only 20% of H1N1 deaths over 65) by the swine flu.
COVID-19 is seemingly being tracked much more definitively, while the swine flu appears to have been almost casually traced, considering the wide and broad data ranges produced by the CDC.
The "confirmed" cases of swine flu reflect a much less precise mid-range average of affected cases, while it appears that every positive result associated with COVID-19 continues to be magnified without further context or margin of error.
The percentage of youth to middle-aged cases — a generally healthy demographic — infected with the swine flu was a whopping 80%, while Italy, the country reportedly hit hardest by the COV-19, reports an average fatality age of 79 (plus another pre-existing condition at the time of death).

As per the CDC's 2009 H1N1 pandemic report:

From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086–402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus. Since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the (H1N1)pdm09 flu virus has circulated seasonally in the U.S. causing significant illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths. Additionally, CDC estimated that 151,700–575,400 people worldwide died from (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection during the first year the virus circulated. Globally, 80 percent of (H1N1)pdm09 virus-related deaths were estimated to have occurred in people younger than 65 years of age. ... [T]he 2009 flu pandemic primarily affected children and young and middle-aged adults[.]

Since the (H1N1)pdm09 virus was very different from circulating H1N1 viruses, vaccination with seasonal flu vaccines offered little cross-protection against (H1N1)pdm09 virus infection. While a monovalent (H1N1)pdm09 vaccine was produced, it was not available in large quantities until late November—after the peak of illness during the second wave had come and gone in the United States[.]

All this despite the fact that the first known case of this new and deadly H1N1 strain was initially reported all the way back in April of 2009. Shortly after, approximately 11 days later, the Obama administration declared the outbreak a pubIic emergency, without any of the mandated precautionary measures we are currently engaged in. It wasn’t until October 23 of 2009 that President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 swine flu a national emergency, again without all the heightened response and prevention measures.

So where were all the vigilance and hysteria back then? There were no mandated social distancing measures implemented resulting in widespread closures, economic devastation, and pork-laden government bailouts.

Perhaps the difference is the shocking and sinister appearance of COVID, stage left, with careful direction by the government of China.

The “author” didn’t touch on the snuck-out videos of doctors stacking bodies from H1N1 or trucks driving down closed streets spraying gas.

China’s refusal to “allow” any help and provide ANY information on this bug, followed by the draconian methods of containment used might just be a clue to other governments of the severity of what’s in store for them.

I certainly hope our government knows more about the biolab at the epicenter of this outbreak than they are telling us.

I’m right there with you, FRiend. None of this has made any sense from the beginning and I just lost my job yesterday because of this BS. Very pissed off at the moment.

This is a manufactured crisis / false flag event, IMHO.

20 million people in the USA contract the H1N1 virus every year and at least 80 thousand of them die as a result which averages out to 6000 to 7000 deaths per month. We are nowhere near those numbers with this “pandemic”.

We have been sold a bill of goods and are willing walking into the slaughter house like livestock.

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