Posted on 10/06/2020 12:47:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
During the H1N1 crisis, there was never a time when I felt pressure to misrepresent facts, dismiss advice from medical experts or praise the president.
The H1N1 flu pandemic was an early and serious homeland security challenge for the Obama Administration. The first cases were detected in Mexico, but not publicly announced, a few weeks before President Obama's 2009 visit to Mexico City. I accompanied Obama on that trip, but we didn't learn about the virus that was beginning to sweep through North America until we returned to Washington.
By the end of April 2009, a public health emergency was declared in the United States, and an all-out government effort was under way to understand the nature and trajectory of the virus - and how we could mitigate its impact, which had the potential to be significant.
Throughout this time, President Obama insisted that "science, facts and data" drive administration policy and actions, and he encouraged homeland security officials to be forthcoming with the American people about the seriousness of the H1N1 flu, which subsided in the summer months but reemerged in the fall, ultimately infecting 60 million Americans and killing more than 12,000.
The strong teamwork I witnessed among the many players involved in confronting the H1N1 pandemic gave me confidence that the administration would be able to deal with other homeland and national security challenges that were yet to come.
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Former CIA director and former communist.
Snarley McSnarlface pipes up again.
Obama just dealt with it differently.
Isn’t it just great that the CIA and their leadership have become highly political entities?
Many public health experts were advising for quarantines, road blocks and such at the time, advice which the Obama administration did not follow.
The media did not cover it or make it an issue.
Yeah, the Obama administration handled Swine Flu differently. And if he had handled COVID-19 the same way, over 2 million would possibly be dead by now since he took so long to act.
The Obama way.
H1N1 killed over 1,600.
Obola’s “response” killed 13x more children with Swine Flu than COVID has.
U.S. to stop counting swine flu cases - Health - Cold and flu ...www.nbcnews.com › health-cold_and_flu › us-says-too...
Oct 9, 2009 — U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years.
He didn’t follow the advice and as I recall they just stopped counting ....
stopped testing....
just stopped.
and life went on without masks, quarantine, lockdown, etc.
There was no hysteria ...they just stopped counting. If you were sick it was assumed H1N1, you were treated for it and life went on in most cases.
Why our side isn’t crying from the rooftop about this is beyond me.
Differently = Not at all
He and Fauci funded and enabled the Chinese Wuhan gain of function research programs that likely gave rise to the virus.
Yes, Comcast
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Bammy had the testing stopped, right?
He did. He did literally nothing, downplayed it and then ceased all testing in the midst of it all.
there was never a time when I felt pressure to misrepresent facts, It comes naturally to me.
He;s not a FORMER Communist......he MUST SEE PRISON TIME THOUGH!!
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