What Mexico’s response to H1N1 can teach us about coronavirus and future pandemics

Atlantic Council ^ | Mar 25, 2020 | Pablo Reynoso Brito

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The 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic had devastating economic implications in Mexico, just as COVID-19 is having on the global economy. In 2008, Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.14 percent. A year later—after the A(H1N1) crisis—its GDP growth fell to -5.28 percent. Moreover, the A(H1N1) outbreak coincided with the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, when Mexico lost a significant amount of exports to the United States.

Former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón wrote in his memoirs that government officials feared that the A(H1N1) could have had the lethality of avian influenza: around 60 percent. By early April of that year, Mexico City—then with 22 million inhabitants and a population density of approximately 5,900 inhabitants per square kilometer—had become the outbreak’s epicenter. A slow response to a virus with those levels of lethality would have been catastrophic.

On April 17, the Mexican government decided to act rapidly, issuing an epidemiological alert across the country. A few days later, all events that gathered large groups of people were canceled for at least thirteen days. In a country where more than 58 percent of the workforce depended on the informal economy, the measures threatened not only to devastate the economy, but cause tremendous social upheaval.

In times of uncertainty, it is important to turn to historical experiences and critically evaluate what others did. Although the A(H1N1) and COVID-19 are different crises with different effects and scale, recalling previous experiences is illustrative.

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And yet, the American response to Swine Flu was much more benign, making the whole scary thing a relative non event

Obama Declares H1N1 a National Emergency

by Peggy Peck, Executive Editor, MedPage Today October 24, 2009 https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/swineflu/16606

Mexico was the test run for shutting down the economy

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0bama-bin-Biden let a huge crisis opportunity go to waste. They could have scared the crap out of the public with H1N1, locked down the country, collapsed the economy, gotten an IMF bailout, forced socialized medicine for all, and implemented their universal vote-by-mail scam 10 years early.

The Tea Party wouldn't have happened, Boner and Ryan would never have been Speakers, and we'd already be a decade into the globalist / socialist "great reset".

Good thing 0bama-bin-Biden were lazy and dumb.

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Mexico’s 2009 response also included pushing another 8,000,000 illegals across the border, creating a larger outbreak of H1N1 in the USA in the Fall than of the Spring of 2009, increasing the percentage of people seeing a doctor from 4.9% to 7.6%

https://cis.org/Report/RecordSetting-Decade-Immigration-20002010

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pastseasons/0910season.htm