Robert DeLong wrote:
“Well we are only halfway to the deadly flu season total of 80,000 in 2017-2018
I remember that panic. We closed down the country for 8 months straight. Oh wait a minute, never mind, that was just a nightmare I had the other night.
But it was the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. It eclipses the estimates for every flu season going back to the winter of 1976-1977. Estimates for many earlier seasons were not readily available.
But we know it caused 500,000 (U.S.) deaths in 1917-1918, which was also while WWI was raging across the pond.”
Then the question is, why the shutdowns over this virus and not any of the others?
Well that is the question. I guess because President Trump decided to ;et the experts lead. Had he gone by his gut instincts I doubt he would have. Especially if the stockpile of PPE and ventilators had been kept up instead of allowing it to become almost completely depleted.