Why don’t our intrepid journalists interview folks who have had the virus and since recovered?
Is there anything like that being broadcast?
Try as I may, I honestly don’t remember it at all.
Well, the difference is that, this virus is a lot more dangerous. due to the fact that the current president is Trump, and Trump doesn’t care about people, which means that a lot more people will be infected and will die.
IOW, the epidemic/pandemic is defined by who is in the White House. If it had been Hillary, life would’ve continued as normal and the pandemic would not have been declared at all.
Not only does Dr. Fouci say Coronavirus is 10 times more lethal than seasonal flu, he was specifically asked about the Swine flu in this video. He says the swine flu was less lethal than the regular flu.
H1N1 was a pandemic
Declared by WHO in April 2009
Obama did not declare it a US national emergency until 6 months later, Oct 2009
By that time his CDC Director Frieden said that millions of Americans were already infected, 20,000 in hospital, 1,000 dead
Vaccines were underway by delayed by bureaucratic snags
https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24/h1n1.obama/index.html
The media gave, and is giving , obama a COMPLETE pass on this history
Do not forget
That was a flu. This is more akin to a highly contagious viral pneumonia.
Why is is it racist to call the pathogen in question the Wuhan virus? No one made that complaint about the Spanish flu, the Asian flu, the Hong Kong flu, and the West Nile, Zika and Ebola viruses.
“From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus. ”
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
Timeline:
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-pandemic-timeline.html ;
I do and so far from the hospital standpoint it was far worse than what we are seeing now
Because they couldn’t use it to take down Trump.
The H1N1 virus is still with us as part of the regular flu. Actually it is the largest strain reported at 50-60%. Since annual flu deaths are not yet known, even for the 2009-2010 outbreak, H1N1 probably kills the same number it did then. The CDC doesn’t report exact numbers; only ranges. The death toll for the “swine flu” was 8800 to 18,880 deaths.
To me the only number to watch is the death rate. How many actually contract the virus is unknowable. Getting scared and projecting from Chinese or Italian experience is a waste of time. Look at the Swiss. They have a high infection rate and low death rate. We’re more like the swiss than we are like the Chinese or Italians in terms of resources and age profile.
Yes. I was working at a hospital watching the massive effort to deploy the already existing vaccine.
Swine Flu? I don’t remember if I put my pants on today.
I’m Joe Bidet, vote for me for Senator or something.
For later
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A couple of observations.
Trying to figure out how bad this current Wuhan flu is going to be is a bit like trying to figure out everything about the 9-11 attacks in the morning of the attacks.
There is too much new information coming out, and there is no context for it.
So this outbreak could be really really bad, or not so bad.
The fact that the numbers are leveling off in China if true, is a good sign, as is the fact that most of the US is going into warmer weather which causes all respirtory conditions to lessen in intensity.
That being said, we CAN say thing thing is for sure. The press coverage on this is like nothing we’ve seen before, and that includes all prior pandemics.
Will it get as bad as H1N1? I don’t think anyone can say for sure at this point.
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I would like to add that I think there is a lot of good that can come from this current hoopla over the Wuhan virus, as long as it isn’t too bad.
It is a great dry run for the next pandemic that could be as contagious as the Wuhan virus but as deadly as Ebola. We currently couldn’t easily handle that.
As long as it isn’t too bad, it will be be resolved before the next election. Of course, the media will do every trick in the book to extend it to then.
It will give Trump the motivation to look at ways to get our supply chains the heck out of China. That is extremely important in the long term, and could be the greatest benefit to all this.