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Posted on 3/15/20 at 7:47 pm to KingOfTheWorld
Posted on 3/15/20 at 7:47 pm to KingOfTheWorld
FFS, do y'all even bother to fact check anything.
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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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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.
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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Posted on 3/15/20 at 9:27 pm to imraged
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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?
Based on what?
Your political beliefs?
That seems to be the line of demarcation on this situation.
Posted on 3/16/20 at 9:03 am to imraged
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There's also the issue of COVID19 being far more lethal than swine flu.
It may be far more lethal...but we don't actually know the mortality rate of the coronavirus yet because we don't know how many actual cases there are. There was a man interviewed on our local news station that tested positive; he said he had a mild grade fever and his doctor didn't want to test him initially because his fever was under 102. How many were like this man and were never tested but recovered? We just don't know...and without knowing that, we won't know the mortality rate...
Looks like South Korea is the model to look at as far as response goes...they've tested more and I think their mortality rate is closer to 1%. Still much higher than the flu but much less than say Italy. Is that because Italy's system is overstressed and they're testing mostly sickly people and South Korea is trying to test everyone it can (including healthier folk who are more likely to survive)? I don't know...
Posted on 3/16/20 at 10:41 am to imraged
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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?
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.
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