03-16-2020, 10:07 AM
I'm sure many of us have seen memes bringing up H1N1 in comparison with COVID-19 - usually to make a partisan point about the administration's handling of one or the other. Looking back at the 2009 pandemic data, it looks like it was pretty serious - 59 million Americans infected, 265,000 hospitalized, and 12,000 dead.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_p...ted_States
But I don't remember as strong a social reaction as is happening with COVID-19. What's different? This would have been at the beginning of the 4T, as opposed to the middle. We were just getting through a financial crisis that had already started, rather than dealing with one *caused* by the reaction to the pandemic. What else is different? Were we just no there in the Crisis mood yet, or intensely enough? Is it that COVID-19 has been so demonstrably bad for other countries (Italy in particular) so it is more ominous a threat?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_p...ted_States
But I don't remember as strong a social reaction as is happening with COVID-19. What's different? This would have been at the beginning of the 4T, as opposed to the middle. We were just getting through a financial crisis that had already started, rather than dealing with one *caused* by the reaction to the pandemic. What else is different? Were we just no there in the Crisis mood yet, or intensely enough? Is it that COVID-19 has been so demonstrably bad for other countries (Italy in particular) so it is more ominous a threat?
Steve Barrera
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[A]lthough one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation. - Hagakure
Saecular Pages