Originally Posted by spike1 (Post 610008)

Lets not get political here or Ken's going to rip us all. In early of 2009 to mid 2010 H1N1 killed 12,500 Americans. That administration waited nearly 7 months to call it a national emergency in the United States.

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey (Post 610006)

Please look up the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919.
Our troops carried it back home to the US.
400000 people died which was more than our losses in WW1.
It was world wide pandemic and millions died.

Since then counties have collaborated to mitigate horrible epidemics.
When the Coronavirus first broke out there was lag of wonderment what was happening.
China lagged behind and then implemented very draconian quarantines.
Most counties did their due diligence to contain the virus.
Some with strict quarantining as well.

The US got due warning, instead lagged behind and dismissed the seriousness other counties were experiencing.
The known death rate is three times that of known Influenza and other pandemic illnesses.
It is expected to go higher.
Plus there is no antidote developed and that is a year away.

After three-four months warning we are only doing targeted quarantines.
Companies are sending employees home, public events and schools are being cancelled.
Our blissful days are going to be interrupted to save lives.

Unengaged Media and Central direction is fortunately being picked up and Lead up by others.
All the US and International organizations who are experienced in this problem are coming together developing plans.
Recommendations are being listened to in Hearings despite the pushback.
Horribly the Agency designed to deal with pandemics was shut down in 2018.

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Originally Posted by Billy Nees (Post 610022)

Politifact is owned by the Poynter Institute, a non-profit journalism school in Tampa,Fla. and was started by the Tampa Tribune. Just more of the fake media.

Originally Posted by Andys dad (Post 610024)

It is not just the corona virus -- it is COVID 19 - all human viruses have a generic title of corona virus - check the back of any disinfectant in you kitchen - like Lysol you will find words like effective in fighting the spread of a corona virus.

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone (Post 610036)

This is typical of how these so-called fact checkers operate.
The F/B poster left out a word (national), so they declare the whole post to be FALSE.

In my way of thinking , the point for comparing this to the swine flu, is that I don't remember major events being cancelled 10 years ago, the panic buying of TP, the non-stop media attention, as in this case. Anybody else remember anything like this?
Why all the media panic stirring this time? I'll let you be the judge.

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey (Post 610048)

Feel free to listen to Denial Media.


And because of that is must be political.

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