Tom Hanks has Coronavirus.
46 people are murdered in Chicago every 6 weeks, does anyone care? Do they run out of toilet paper in the stores?
1- yes, people care
2- the number of people that care outside of Chicago is really small, because they know it doesn’t effect them
Which is the whole difference. Violence in Chicago isn’t gonna bother the average person not living in Chicago. But the Coronavirus has the potential to infect pretty much anyone, so, a lot more people care.
And as for the toilet paper thing, again, nobody said stock up on that. That’s just stupid people being stupid.
2009-2010 we had the swine flu. Up to 84,000,000 Americans infected. 300,000 hospitalized. 60,000 deaths here.
No mass panic.. no cancelled sports games, no school cancellations.
No excess media hype. Why? Could it be because of who sat in the White House? That guy had friends in the media...
60,000? And whose numbers are those?
According to the CDC it was more like 12k.
“These final estimates were that from April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010 approximately 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (195,086-402,719), and
12,469 deaths (8868-18,306) occurred in the United States due to pH1N1”
source:
CDC Novel H1N1 Flu |CDC Estimates of 2009 H1N1 Influenza Cases, Hospitalizations and Deaths in the United States, April 2009 – January 16, 2010
And, there was a TON of media coverage.
And some of what we’re doing now is a response to that- meaning, they figured out what we did wrong, and how we could have responded better so the disease won’t be so widespread.
And yeah, the death rate was lower. At the current 3.4% estimate, if 60.8 million people got covid-19 there’d be just over
2 million deaths.
It’s not apples to apples comparison.