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Originally Posted by legion
Why was the swine flu in 2012 that both infected and killed many, many, many more (like a couple of orders of magnitude more) US citizens not a crisis, but this
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H1N1 was a crisis that was handled well, so it didn’t look like a crisis. H1N1 killed approx 12000 people over the course of a year. We don’t know what COVID-19 is going to look like a year from now, so it’s hard to compare them. One reason there was little panic is that Obama immediately recognized H1N1 was a serious health issue as opposed to a political plot and took it seriously. He didn’t have a bunch of people denying it and minimizing it and didn’t have a “hunch” it was going to go away very soon. He declared a public health emergency within a couple of days of the first case being identified and continued to stay on top of it. He declared a second public health emergency a few weeks later finally a national emergency. Few people panicked because it appeared the government knew what it was doing to protect us.