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> I would say the same thing regardless of the man on the podium. Must have been hard for you to stomach 2009 then when 60 million Americans got infected with
by m0zg 7y ago
> I would say the same thing regardless of the man on the podium.
Must have been hard for you to stomach 2009 then when 60 million Americans got infected with H1N1, nothing whatsoever was done, and the CDC budget was cut the very next year.
- rbanffy 7y agoWe didn't have to stomach much. https://www.propublica.org/article/no-president-trump-the-coronavirus-is-nothing-like-h1n1-swine-flu-either https://www.propublica.org/article/no-president-trump-the-co...
- m0zg 7y agoDidn't seem like it at the outset (which is where we are now) - the initial estimates were wildly inflated: https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/489927 https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/22/1/7/489927. And yet still, nothing whatsoever was done. Nobody was criticized for the lack of response, and, as I said above, the CDC budget was cut the following year.