A reminder, the H1N1 epidemic we were told this would be no worse than

[edhopper]

saw 12,000 deaths over 18 months,
.
COVID-19, 60,000 deaths in under 3 months.

But no difference, right?

[budkin]

1. Trump is doing a fantastic job

Total success.

[Dlpger61]

2. Said H1N1 was a Disaster

I hope a reporter would ask #45 if he feels that the 12,000 deaths under the previous administration was a total disaster and that was over a period of 18 months, what does he have to say about his administrations death toll of 60+ thousand in less than 3 months.

[Caliman73]

6. That would be good wouldn't it? Shame it hasn't happened.

Of course Trump would whine about being treated unfairly by the "fake news". The reality is that he made a specific claim comparing his handling of COVID-19 to how President Obama and VP Biden handled H1N1. I would hope that the reporter would ask him to explain how losing 12,000 over a year an a half is a disaster, but losing 60,000 and counting within a 3 month period earns a 10 rating. Trump has lost 5 times more people in 1/6th the time frame. I would repeat that. "You have lost 5 times more people in 1/6th the time period, how can you, with any credibility call President Obama's response a disaster and your response a 10?" 5 times as many in 3 months than President Obama lost in 18 months.

[brewens]

3. Trump slammed Biden over H1N1 deaths. Bragged about the ratings he was getting early on

in this. Any time Trump worshippers call for unity to get through this, throw this in their face.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/03/13/trump-biden-coronavirus-tweet/

[sop]

4. Deaths occurring during Obama's presidency are much worse than Trump's, by a factor of 7,

sort of like the old Dog Years formula.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. So, Benghazi really had 28 deaths

No wonder the Republicans were upset

[Demsrule86]

5. Actually, the deaths were in about 30 days...

[edhopper]

7. first deaths were early Feb

but they grew exponentially.

[uponit7771]

9. K&R, H1N1 Ro was 2 ish CV19 Ro is 5.7 from CDC