China’s Handling of Covid-19 and America’s Handling of H1N1 Compared Side by Side (VIDEO)

In 2009 swine flu infected 60 million Americans as US gov't and the corporate media underplayed its actual scale by a factor of one hundred

It is estimated that 11–21% of the then global population (of about 6.8 billion), or around 700–1400 million people contracted the illness — more in absolute terms than the Spanish flu pandemic. However, with about 150,000–575,000 fatalities, it had a much lower case fatality rate of 0.01-0.08%.”

Essentially the US took a Darwinian, laissez-faire approach of “do nothing, the strong will survive,” albeit I suspect the real motivation was to not upset the stock market indexes and GDP numbers that are so important to US governments. (And were especially important in 2009 in the early stages of the Obama Fed working to reinflate the financialization bubble after the Great Recession.)

While it could be argued that that was the correct approach (it all depends on your subjective aesthetics) the fact that the US government and the corporate media mislead (knowingly or unknowingly) the population, feeding them ridiculously low-balled numbers (100-times lower than reality) can not be defended.

The government-media complex denied the people the choice to make an informed decision for themselves. 12,000 Americans died. (While China with its forced quarantines and travel bans is likewise denying choice but on the side of Draconian caution — or overreaction depending on where you’re coming from):

7 Comments
  1. Mary E says

    Washington has a nasty habit of lying to the American people….about everything!

    1. All_has_An _END_. says

      lying to the entire planet , here fixed for you

    2. Padre says

      I remember, once they asked a Soviet Union citizen, what is the difference between them an US, and he said:”Both governments lie, but we don’t believe ours, while Americans believe theirs”!

  2. David Chu says

    This guy is great. He is very methodical in his youtube videos on China and on this coronavirus. He also has a running series called “Epic China” that anyone who wants to understand the real China and its real history would appreciate to learn from.

  3. cechas vodobenikov says

    covid 19 is declining in china—they entirely closed 1 hospital in Wuhan that had been created to treat these patients—in Italy and S Korea cases r increasing….ihopefully, n 6 months, this hysteria will expire,

  4. Michael says

    “It is estimated that 11–21% of the then global population (of about 6.8 billion), or around 700–1400 million people contracted the illness — more in absolute terms than the Spanish flu pandemic. However, with about 150,000–575,000 fatalities, it had a much lower case fatality rate of 0.01-0.08%.”- 12,000 Americans died.”

    11 years have passed and Americans are much older. those who die from this virus are generally older and frailer which Americans have become since 2009. This will be on Trump’s head

    i believe that Trump’s economic war against China which began in early 2017 caused the Chinese companies to cut down on safety and other measures in order to survive. In the process more workers were exposed to the risk of this virus jumping species. If that hypothesis is true then the economic war helped create the Coronavirus pandemic.

    1. Dan says

      Good lord, you will come up with anything to blame trump for everything. You must be part of the every wins and gets a trophy generation….guess what Sally life is hard…buckle up and wear a helmet..

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