Posted on 03/12/2020 1:25:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Excellent segment by Rush.
Just talking about this yesterday in another thread; I remember the Swine Flu panic 0f 1976. People were just as panicked over getting inoculated against it as they were the flu itself, due to side effects.
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/1/05-1007_article
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUtYDyqLjpo
Precisely why I dug up this thread from 2009
Over 8000+ posts and a lot of doom and gloom.
H1N1 flu victim collapsed on way to hospital [Latest H1N1 updates downthread]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2278371/posts
Bottom line: don’t commit hari kari just yet. You might live to regret it when things get better.
Sure I do.....and they lined people up...and lined people up....and no one REALLY knows if it did a bit of good.
We didn’t all die? I’m shocked.
Spring '09: Swine flu hits
Summer '09: Cases diminish
Fall '09: Swine flu worse than the Spring
So whatever happens...it'll likely get better...then likely worse...then MUCH better!
I don’t remember any panic.. Swine Flu 1976..
I remember it like yesterday because I caught it. I hadn’t had the flu since about 1975 and that H1N1 (or Hini as I called it) hit me hard. I was down flat for 10 days and fevers hitting 104 and 105; I saw bats coming out of cracks in the ceiling and walls and thought to myself, “My gosh, I know this is an hallucination but those bats sure look real.” So, I’m not looking forward to catching C-19.
We live in a tiny town near Nowheres Ville, and my husband drove miles to the nearest LittleBigger Town to stock up on groceries we can’t find in our town. We do this every month, so it was our regular trip. He said there was not a roll of toilet paper in the store, not even in the camping section. When he got home we realized he’d forgotten a couple of items, to he went to our little, local market. They had toilet paper displayed all over the store with the regular price displayed.
Maybe country folks know something?
“I don’t remember any panic.. Swine Flu 1976..”
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Was a contributing factor in Ford’s loss to Carter that same year, esp the problems with the inoculation program. The Nixon pardon didn’t help him a whole lot either.
Remember all those timed you wore a seatbelt and nothing happened? No, you don’t.
While that’s a good reminder, don’t forget to drag out the mortality figures too. Because whil H1N1 aka Swine Flu affected from 700 million to 1.4 billion peole worldwide, it ha a mortality rate of 0.02%
So far the mortality rate from COVAD-19 is running 3.6%.
It’s all about limiting the spread, which is what President Trump is doing. Otherwise, you do the math.
I remember it well since my son caught it while immune-system compromised during chemotherapy. He was under a day away from going to the ICU with pneumonia when the turn-around finally began. That was more than a bit close for comfort.
More than 1000 Americans died in 2009 before the gov’t even acknowledged there was a problem. There was nowhere near this level of dem/media-driven hysteria. The infection rates dwarf this virus.
Yet, even in the face of these and other facts, some insist on taking the hysteria bait being offered up by the dems/media hook, line, and sinker.
It looks amazingly similar. A lot of 1918 thrown around.
Rush is the best. This article proves it.
I never really appreciated him enough until I heard about the cancer he was battling - my bad.. Now, with the thought of losing him - I guess I am realizing how lucky we have been to have his perspective.
I never got it and no one I know did
Vaguely.
People will remember this one though.
I remember it vividly, I caught it.
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