re: Insanity...

FFS, do y'all even bother to fact check anything.

LINK

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Obama’s acting director of health and human services declared H1N1 a public health emergency on April 26, 2009.

That was when only 20 cases of H1N1 — and no deaths — around the country had been confirmed.

Two days later, the administration made an initial funding request for H1N1 to Congress. Eventually $7.65 billion was allocated for a vaccine and other measures.

H1N1 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on June 11, 2009.

In other words, the Obama administration’s public health emergency declaration came more than six weeks before the pandemic designation.

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There's also the issue of COVID19 being far more lethal than swine flu. Like, shouldn't that justify an appropriate response?

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There's also the issue of COVID19 being far more lethal than swine flu. Like, shouldn't that justify an appropriate response?

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Based on what?

Your political beliefs?

That seems to be the line of demarcation on this situation.

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Keep that bullshite to yourself

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I’ll not do that, but thanks for the suggestion. Maybe log off if you can’t handle differing opinions?

I'm not certain what you're asking? We've had strong reason to believe the mortality rate was relatively high for weeks.

Even at ~1% as we've seen in S. Korea (where they've tested 200K+) that's tens or even hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. Shutdowns absolutely should've occurred as soon as the first cases were reported here.

Hopefully, you got it.

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Hopefully, you got it.

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He can still see it, Blondie.

Thanks, Saint.

Saint, there are probably far more people that can say the same thing but don't know it. COVID-19 isn't particularly lethal for most people. But if you are in the vulnerable subset, it is pretty deadly. This virus has a hockey stick shaped mortality rate. If you are young, relatively healthy, your odds of surviving it are really high. You keep reading about anecdotal cases that are otherwise healthy and are now on a ventilator. Those are exceptions. Then there's the handle of the hockey stick where as your age increases and your underlying health decreases, your odds of succumbing climb rapidly. And all the medical community can do for you at this point is mechanically support you until you either fight it off or lose the battle. When this is all said and done, I think the mortality rate in most of the world will be closer to 1% than the 6% it is in Italy. Italy is what happens when you don't bend the curve and the health care system gets overwhelmed and starts to fail. This is serious. Social distancing works. Do your part until we can bend the curve.

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There's also the issue of COVID19 being far more lethal than swine flu. Like, shouldn't that justify an appropriate response?

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A plague would be impossible to get out ahead of. We've already seen measures that are unprecedented in our lifetime. People are rightly concerned, and people are now mobilizing individually the best their circumstances allow. But unlike other natural disasters, where does one go? We live in a social infrastructure that requires contact and close proximity to one another. Trying to make yourself bulletproof by avoiding contact is kinda like doing the backstroke during an incoming tsunami.

At this point, my advice is everyone, individually and as a family, "duck" whatever that means to you.

Yeah, wife had plans to take the kids to Destin next week for Spring Break, and I had to convince her last night to cancel those plans. Waiting to hear back from the property owner on any refund, but that's really the least of our worries right now.