How is this different from H1N1? [View all]

[D_Master81]

This seems to be the go to argument from the MAGA, Covid-19 deniers, that over 10,000 people died from H1N1 and we didn’t shut the country down and blame the President. Now I’ll admit I don’t remember much about that, maybe because there was a lot else going on. But my response to them is usually “could and should we have done more then? Maybe, but how does that change the reality of the current situation?” To which they’ll say something like only 5,000 people out of 7 billion have died so it’s being overblown. I just wonder how this is different cause it’s a meme that I’m seeing pop up a lot from conservatives.