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I_UndergroundPanther

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14. I caught it,h1n1

Reply to GusFring (Original post)

Wed Oct 7, 2020, 11:10 PM

Oct 2020

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.

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H1n1 vs Covid. I don't remember h1n1 being that bad. [View all] GusFring Oct 2020 OP

It wasn't. marybourg Oct 2020 #1

It was more contagious than most other flus... Wounded Bear Oct 2020 #2

I remember some fuss, but not THAT bad. lagomorph777 Oct 2020 #3

I can't believe they think that line would work. Claustrum Oct 2020 #4

No, for fucks sake. Nothing even close. onecaliberal Oct 2020 #5

No, it wasn't. Not even remotely remotely. nt Blue_true Oct 2020 #6

He lied. He said 60m got it. I guess if you're gonna lie... brush Oct 2020 #21

It was enormously contagious, but not nearly as deadly as SARS-COV-2. Blue_true Oct 2020 #22

About 60M Americans got it however it wasn't Rice4VP Oct 2020 #28

More like 25m which probably included regular seasonal flu. brush Oct 2020 #29

Some people died...but not 200,000 Obama/Biden handled it. Demsrule86 Oct 2020 #7

It was between 8 and 12 thousand over the course of an entire year. Crunchy Frog Oct 2020 #19

And consider that H1N1 was much more lethal. Demsrule86 Oct 2020 #25

Much less lethal. Less lethal even than regular seasonal flu I believe. Crunchy Frog Oct 2020 #27

My husband and son had h1n1. It was bad but completely different from this pandemic. Nt helpisontheway Oct 2020 #8

I honestly don't remember anything about h1n AlexSFCA Oct 2020 #9

Revisionist history won't work chriscan64 Oct 2020 #10

They closed some schools in Texas for a couple of weeks Mariana Oct 2020 #11

25% of the human race got h1n1 but the world, lead by the Obama admin, was prepared for ... uponit7771 Oct 2020 #12

I don't even remember wearing a mask for h1n1 GusFring Oct 2020 #13

I caught it,h1n1 I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2020 #14

No. I was a RN in the same hospital I'm in now ismnotwasm Oct 2020 #15

No. Trump and Pence are trying to spin it into something it was not. Politicub Oct 2020 #16

I don't even remember H1N1, and I had newborn preemie twins at the time. Crunchy Frog Oct 2020 #17

I had H1N1.. it was a bad flu, the worst I've had, but absolutely nothing like what ppl say of covid Thekaspervote Oct 2020 #18

Caught a weaker strain of it in the Spring that year. haele Oct 2020 #20

If you cannot remember it, then it wasn't as bad as covid-19. Yavin4 Oct 2020 #23

Estimated US H1N1 deaths over a year: 12.5K struggle4progress Oct 2020 #24

I got very sick with h1n1 gollygee Oct 2020 #26