we're not even at H1N1 level of deaths yet in this country...Barak and Biden weren't doing anything at this point yet.. kinda confusing
do you remember it that way?
did you research that?
or did you just regurgitate some talking heads, like a no brain sheep.
a little background. H1N1 was a form of flu, so not a novel virus. Thus humans did have some basic inherent genetic immunity as immune systems would recognize the tweak of the flu strain. But it was also known that a vaccine would be able to be made in relatively short term. A novel coronavirus will infect a human immune system and they have absolutely zero natual affinity to fight it off and have to re learn their entire immune response. That is why things are shutting down EVERYWHERE in the world for this. Scientists have been shitting their pants behind closed doors to world leaders as they don't have answers yet, and this is a more contagious and insidiously mutating virus that has a stealth incubation component. But if you want to continue to compare the apples and oranges, just using raw data that is done vs very quickly accumulating data against the advice of experts that is a decision that doesn't just affect you. but in any event here is how the H1N1 went down. It was a bit different in big and nuanced ways. a big one being, that since it was a very bad flu strain, we did know that the sun, heat and humidity would help mitigate the affects, summer was soon approaching.
April 15 First H1N1 Case in the United States. It began in the United States so there was no months of previous warning from foreign countries.
April 28 the First H1N1 death
April 29- Public health Emergency declared and Obama requests 1.5 Trillion dollars from Congress, Says some schools should close and people to plan for contingencies for staying home
April 29 WHO raises Pandemic alert to level 5
May 5 the first US citizen dies of H1N1
July 11 The CDC declares H1N1 a pandemic
July 24- The CDC says there are
2738 confirmed cases of H1N1
The summer hit and H1N1 "washed through" kids were out of school and not spreading as fast. There were on a few thousand actual cases and there was no exponential growth.
Fall comes and kids start spreading again a quick ramp up after September things get bad in October.
October 5th- first H1N1 vaccine is administered
not everyone is getting the H1N1 vaccine, because hey, its just the flu vaccine of the year and not everyone gets that.
October schools start to close and A surge(like but lesser than what we see in NY now) finally hits some hospitals and is predicted for other hospitals.
In response Obama declares a national emergency to make it easier for Medical facilities to handle the surge by allowing a waiver of some medicare red tape as well as other federal health insurance programs
August 10 2010 WHO declares end of the H1N! pandemic.
so there is 17 months of that pandemic. If people want to compare apples and oranges for purely political purpses its gonna make it doubly sad when CV19, which is a far scarier pathogen, kills much more than 12,000+ over the next 17 months