H1n1 vs Covid. I don't remember h1n1 being that bad.

[GusFring]

Was it?

[marybourg]

1. It wasn't.

[Wounded Bear]

2. It was more contagious than most other flus...

but not highly fatal, IIRC.

[lagomorph777]

3. I remember some fuss, but not THAT bad.

[Claustrum]

4. I can't believe they think that line would work.

Maybe it does to his base that Fox News already told them that. But normal Americans would go "huh?".

[onecaliberal]

5. No, for fucks sake. Nothing even close.

[Blue_true]

6. No, it wasn't. Not even remotely remotely. nt

[brush]

21. He lied. He said 60m got it. I guess if you're gonna lie...

lie big.

[Blue_true]

22. It was enormously contagious, but not nearly as deadly as SARS-COV-2.

About 21 million Americans got the novel Swine Flu, around 12,800 died from it over about 1 year. The Obama Administration went to mitigation procedures right away and that saved lives, as the procedures broke the contagion loop and burned the virus out.

[Rice4VP]

28. About 60M Americans got it however it wasn't

as deadly as COVID. 12,500 died. Biden said this in the first debate

[brush]

29. More like 25m which probably included regular seasonal flu.

[Demsrule86]

7. Some people died...but not 200,000 Obama/Biden handled it.

[Crunchy Frog]

19. It was between 8 and 12 thousand over the course of an entire year.

And that wasn't with counting the fatalities day to day, but an estimate after the whole thing was over.

Covid's final count will end up being much higher than the preliminary numbers that we have now. Not even remotely comparable.

[Demsrule86]

25. And consider that H1N1 was much more lethal.

[Crunchy Frog]

27. Much less lethal. Less lethal even than regular seasonal flu I believe.

[helpisontheway]

8. My husband and son had h1n1. It was bad but completely different from this pandemic. Nt

[AlexSFCA]

9. I honestly don't remember anything about h1n

I certainly never saw any business or schools closed because of it, travel restrictions or masks, etc. I don’t recall job losses due to h1n1. All I remember it was just a form of flue which is different each year anyway. I never even thought about it for or had any concern at all. And I think most voters have not either so pence did himself a disservice here. He just appealed to trump’s hardcore base, they already got them.

[chriscan64]

10. Revisionist history won't work

when Americans can't remember any other time we all had to wear masks and cancel baseball.

[Mariana]

11. They closed some schools in Texas for a couple of weeks

because it killed a few kids early on. IIRC, they figured out pretty quickly that it was significantly less deadly than ordinary seasonal flu. Pence speaks as though Obama and Biden's response to a much deadlier pandemic disease would be exactly the same as their response to H1N1, which of course is ridiculous and he knows it.

[uponit7771]

12. 25% of the human race got h1n1 but the world, lead by the Obama admin, was prepared for ...

... the infected and a way to stop it from spreading as fast as it could.

The world didn't fall apart like it has with CV19 because of the way H1N1 was treated at first.

H1N1 was less deadly than CV19 though and only 13,000 Americans died and the flu season that year was a non event.

[GusFring]

13. I don't even remember wearing a mask for h1n1

[I_UndergroundPanther]

14. I caught it,h1n1

It was the wimpyist flu I ever had. Symptoms were not bad at all. Little cough sputum low fever for a day. No body aches or chills. It was not that bad.

[ismnotwasm]

15. No. I was a RN in the same hospital I'm in now

Trust me. It wasn’t this bad

[Politicub]

16. No. Trump and Pence are trying to spin it into something it was not.

I don’t think anyone believes it. Republicans and Fox News play along, and MAGATs probably believe it, but most people who lived during that time know it wasn’t anything like COVID.

[Crunchy Frog]

17. I don't even remember H1N1, and I had newborn preemie twins at the time.

I was taking them in for well visits and WIC visits and shots all the time and never worried about it.

Now they're eleven, distance learning, and a huge ordeal just to get them a booster that they need because we're so worried about possibly killing their grandma if we pick up something at the Dr's office.

Pence is a total liar.

[Thekaspervote]

18. I had H1N1.. it was a bad flu, the worst I've had, but absolutely nothing like what ppl say of covid

[haele]

20. Caught a weaker strain of it in the Spring that year.

Felt like death warmed over for almost two weeks, and felt off for another month, but it wasn't as bad as the pneumonia I caught when I was 20. I didn't feel like I was drowning for what seemed like hours, and the while the fever and body ache was bad, but not like the almost unbearable skin on fire fever I developed with the pneumonia.

H1N1 killed, what, 20k people in the US, over the period of a year and a half in the time before the ACA was rolled out? And believe me, inability to access healthcare until it was too late was a major cause of needless death or incapacitation prior to the ACA for Americans who couldn't get insurance through their jobs or the Government.

COVID has already killed 10x that in 6 months. They're not very close to being comparable.

Haele

[Yavin4]

23. If you cannot remember it, then it wasn't as bad as covid-19.

We will remember covid-19 forever.

[struggle4progress]

24. Estimated US H1N1 deaths over a year: 12.5K

Multiply by 16+ for current COVID-19 deaths to date

[gollygee]

26. I got very sick with h1n1

but it doesn't sound as bad as COVID