Obviously, President Obama did something right doing (H1N1 national emergency)...I don't recall a major outbreak and Obama listening to his scientist and medical experts on getting the virus contained.
"Here’s the bottom line. Patients can beat this disease. And we can beat this disease. But we have to stay vigilant. (We have to work together at every level — federal, state and local. And we have to keep leading the global response, because the best way to stop this disease, the best way to keep Americans safe, is to stop it at its source — President Obama)."
E 61 million Americans got it. People over 60 somehow had a anti body to it and yet still 60 million got it. My wife had it and had to be in a hospital. Luckily I did not get it so I don’t know. Older people are more targeted by this and seem to have the higher death rate though causing this to be more deadly. However if H1N1 spreads to older people is the death rate higher?
Several things are different. Social media is in full swing. People get their news in 140 characters with no deeper research. Journalists are all about the headlines. Our media is no longer news on a national level. It’s opinion pieces passed as news for ratings. Fox went 8 years after Obama. So now CNN is in full swing anti Trump. But this is passed as news? Why? Because at one time it was actually news.
I would call 61 million in a year a massive outbreak. I would also be curious if we took the people over 60 out of the equation what the death rate looked like. If it fell to H1N1 levels I think then you’d have to say government overreacted? I don’t have answers to that.