[EdnaMode]

The media and politicians worldwide caused the panic. Without them, it would have just been seen as a bad flu season.

[packrat35]

Plenty of FR Karens will show up to ell you how wrong you are soon.

[ifinnegan]

Yes. It’s real. Not good. Causes deaths.

But if yearly flu were covered in the same way it could also cause the same type of fear and paranoia.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“The media and politicians worldwide caused the panic. Without them, it would have just been seen as a bad flu season.”

Exactly right. Did we have this insane hysteria for the:
1. Asian flu (1957–1958)
2. Hong Kong flu (1968–1969)
2. H1N1/09 flu pandemic (2009–2010)

Nope. But Trump wasn’t running for re-election in this pandemics.

Side note: I just observed that many web sites are scrubbing their language to remove all references to Asia and Hong Kong for the 1957 and 1968 pandemics.

[Dogbert41]

He was wrong in that it WAS CREATED IN A LAB.

[immadashell]

Aided and abetted by another disease, Trump Derangement Syndrome. This is/was the first left wing scam to successfully knock down the Trump reelection campaign and stall the most robust economic environment going into an election. It's been driven by a compliant liberal media. Fauci should be emasculated!

[kaehurowing]

Thousands of people are dying every day and it’s getting worse.

[Deaf Smith]

The CDC estimated that 60 million in the US carried H1N1 (Swine Flu) by December of 2009.

Then the increasing curve flatlined in January of 2010 when case reporting was stopped by Hussien & Biden.

[SuperLuminal]

" (NO - I do not mean it’s not real or was bioengineered.)"

Well... That means you are only half correct...
Won't be reading beyond the title since IMHO the article must be "half-assed" work...

[A strike]

Alex, agreed; except there is a lot of evidence that this Wuhan virus was bioengineered.

[familyop]

The main concern is about other lasting effects, not the number of deaths. For one, what will the cost burdens be for more disability cases and gimpy employees?

[Grampa Dave]

This ChiCom virus was another attempted coup to remove our President from office and to weaken him in the upcoming election.

The attempted coup members: the Mediots, the elites in Con- gress of both parties and the paid trolls pretending to be conservatives on the conservative sites.

Of course the Clintoons, Obama’s and the Deep staters in the FBI/CIA/????!

Last but not least the ChiComs at all levels of this biological and media attack on President Trump and his deplorable Americans.

[vigilante2]

Its not even equivalent to a bad flu

[preacher]

l8r

[Chickensoup]

This reminds me of the hysteria of the nightly death counts that Cronkite I toned during the Vietnam War. Leftists bastards hurt our country then and are hurting it again

[smokingfrog]

https://realclimatescience.com/2020/07/1996-wuhan-flu-can-be-deadly-to-elderly/

[Svartalfiar]

Most of us will never know anyone under 55 (65? 70?) who has died of #Covid.

Ha. How many of us even know someone who actually got the ChinaVirus? (By which I mean a positive test.) I can name only two - buddy in CO was really sick for a week or two back in late spring. Then a cousin-in-law tested 'positive' when he went in for strep throat. Tested positive for strep, only had strep symptoms, but doc said what the hell, lets run a ChinaVirus test and see if I get a couple thousand free bonus $$$. Never had symptoms, no one around him ever tested positive or had symptoms (he was at my kid's 1st BDay party the weekend before this). I don't think he ever really had it.

So yea, I'm right next to the Dallas County 'hotspot', and I only directly know of two positive tests - one in CO, and one way down in Waco.