Why was the 2009 pandemic not taken ANYWHERE NEAR as seriously as COVID-19?

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  1. Lesh

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    Covid deaths in the US topped 6,000 today. That number was 3,000 just a couple days ago
     
  2. Lesh

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    You act like this has replaced those?

    No? It's in addition? By the way the world wide number is well over 55 thousand...in a MONTH

    So what are you trying to say exactly?

    That a couple million deaths is no big deal?
     
  3. Curious Always

    Curious Always Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah - fire is starting to really go, now. There's no stopping it for a few weeks. This is going to be a very sad time. Some Americans just won't be told what to do, even in a very serious crisis. Now we get to see what that causes. Sigh.

    My preference, make no mistake, is all these conspiracy theorists get to say "told ya so," when this turns out to be a nothing-burger. That is a wish. It won't come true. :-( That ship has sailed. We're all in, now.
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    Are your fingers crossed?
     
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  5. Lesh

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    No...he's a realist

    Listen to the realists for a change
     
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    Want to bet?
     
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    Smartmouthwoman Bless your heart Past Donor

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    You mean the hopest. Hasn't happened yet. You can only hope.

    Think I heard today there are now a million victims -- worldwide. 2010 there were 60 million H1N1victims -- in the US.

    Ever hear the story of the little boy who cried wolf?
     
  8. ronv

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    It's almost impossible to educate the worst ones, I guess.
     
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    So you were a Democrat, despite that fact that you didn't believe it was on the right. Looks like you like being in the Political Party that is on the wrong side of history. No wonder you're a Republican!
     
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    Lying about other posters is bad form. Hasn't happened yet? If people don't take this VERY seriously...much worse is going to happen. That comes from the Trump White House

    Do you ever tire of being abjectly....consistently...stubbornly...wrong?
     
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    You have no idea when I came to the conclusion that Democrats lost their way and when I left the party. You also mistake me for a Republican. I'd say next time, ask me I'm willing to answer.
     
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    Nonresponsive, see the data posted already, which even pea-brained LWs should be able to parse out.

    Any claims that Corona is #3 of causes of death in pretty much any kind of metric are not just errors at this point, but malicious, purposeful, propagandistic, despicable lies.
     
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    Do you think that I was questioning whether they have taken it seriously?
     
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    What does Trump not taking it seriously have to do with the 5,000 that are dead? Do you actually think that he has independent control over the coronavirus response! Oh GOD if that was true! There would be no more USA, as would be the case if ANY politician had independent control over the coronavirus response!
     
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    How is that Trump saying that "news of a pandemic was a hoax?"
     
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    No, I knew that he was calling the Democrat's REACTION to the Administration's response to the coronavirus a hoax, but not the virus itself. As in the Democrats are politicising it. To say that they aren't is the height of dumbness.
     
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    There is nothing wrong in those daily death rates if that's what you mean.
    How many COVID 19 deaths do you think we will have by the end of the month.
     
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    Creepy Joe, no vote for him!
     
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    many southern conservatives are part of the dem party, they often switch back and forth

    they do not really vote democrat, so they may as well be republicans
     
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    Never been to the South. Born and raised in Philadelphia, now residing in the Detroit area. I'm a Nationalist, inside of a country where Nationalism is nonexistent.
     
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    LOL! Good point. Nobody argued about it. We just listened to the medical experts.
     
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    Pssst….. Did you know that Sarah Palin can see Russia from her house?

    Yep, it's all over the news media so it's true!
     
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    Get lost with your American partisan hate. You are seriously going to destroy your nation with that trash.
     
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    And to think you accuse others of FAKE NEWS.
     
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    I can see Washington from my house.

    It is kind of interesting, watching the level of the intelligence of Republican leaders drop over the years. Reagan had limited intelligence although many in the right described him as smart, mostly for having become president, without quite realizing the machine behind the president. Lil' Bush was a C student who spent his twenties and thirties as a drunken fool. They sobered and prettied him up. As long as he stayed on message, the goofiness was accepted. Just another guy you'd sit around and drink a beer. Sarah Palin is her own punch line. It didn't take long and her own words gave her away. It is kind of comical, the way certain people were drawn to her, as if she spoke for them. Michelle Bachman was another one. Seemingly off her rocker, yet the voice of a segment of society. Then comes Trump, the saviour of Evangelicals. Rude and crude, a conman who bulls#@&$ his way through life.
     

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