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I'm no fan of totalitarian governments, but blaming America's problems with coronavirus on China seems like a reach to me - we had two months warning just from
by klipt 7y ago
I'm no fan of totalitarian governments, but blaming America's problems with coronavirus on China seems like a reach to me - we had two months warning just from watching what happened in China and our government did literally no preparation during that time. I suspect if we'd had longer warning we would have just spent longer doing nothing.
- Gibbon1 7y ago2009 swine flu pandemic originated in Mexico and wasn't contained either. Killed 250,000 people. Don't see anyone blaming Mexico. Flip side China and Vietnam have squelched the virus. While the Federal Government continues to do nothing leaving everything to various states.
- azgard 7y agoWikipedia says 12,469 deaths were estimated, 3,433 confirmed[1]. It says there were 274,000 _hospitalizations_ ... is that what you're referring to? I'd like to think that if 250k Americans died, we'd know more about it. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic_in_the...
- Gibbon1 7y ago> The number of lab-confirmed deaths reported to the WHO is 18,449,[7] though this 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is estimated to have actually caused about 284,000 (range from 150,000 to 575,000) deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic