COVID-19 versus the 1918 Influenza Pandemic

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(03-17-2020, 10:37 PM)Marc Lamb Wrote:

(03-13-2020, 01:37 PM)Mickey123 Wrote: If this had happened in the 90s, the response would have been entirely different. 

People are freaking out, and desperately want the government to do something about it.  I guarantee you that if we have mass forced quarantines, with people unable to leave certain areas, the public will cheer for this.

Correct. And nobody even remembers the H1N1 virus of 2010, which killed 16,000 Americans.

But the S&H cycle is very, very political.

Which is to say, their cycle is nearly impossible to detect and quantify, because informed-people tend to be very, very political.

Conclusion: If Hillary Clinton  were President right now, Covid19 would be a breath of spring-like fresh air, no matter how many innocents breathed deep it's deathly aroma.

p.s. People are not freaking out, they are merely like sheep following a shepherd. In this case, the shepherd is evil like Adolph Hitler etc.

I don't think that's a valid conclusion. If Clinton had won in 2016, this would still have happened, there would still have been a strong government response, but there would be significant resistance from the Trumpistas (who presumably would have caused so much trouble already that we couldn't even be sure what the state of the nation would be anyway). I think the same folks would have been calling 'hoax' - its just that now they are slowly turning around as their leader slowly acknowledges the problem.