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Originally Posted by Major
Right now based on raw numbers and with full knowledge that the Chinese coronavirus hasn’t run its full course this pandemic isn’t as nearly as bad as the H1N1 pandemic. It is a crisis created by media and social media. We did not need to destroy our economy to deal with it. I know not a single person who has the virus. The numbers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire are extremely low. Deaths total 2.
Politicians who have no risk of not getting paid are making decisions that are putting millions of hard working Americans out of work and business. Forgive me if I’m not as easily convinced that shuttering our economy is the best way to deal with this.
I’ve asked this before, show me posts from this Forum or even news articles from 2009 stating that we handled the much worse (at least as of right now) H1N1 pandemic badly. The 1500 number referenced above was the number of American deaths before Obama declared a national emergency. We did not shut down commerce and jeopardize our way of life. You and everyone else should be much more concerned about a national and global economic collapse.
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Good use of your epidemiology degree! For starters, the death rate is many multiples higher than H1N1. And it is spreading exponentially - each person on average spreads it to two more, and people with no symptoms are spreading it. This makes it fundamentally different than H1N1 and why getting ahead of it is important. By the time this becomes clear to you, we will be Italy.