And considering it’s no big deal we probably way overreacted to September 11
COVID19 is just like the flu, so I guess you are right. 
Yeah, I know…
Let me full quote that for you just in case people take your clipped quote as true
51000 for 2014-15
Another Obama failure?
What’s different about it?
Nothing. They should just call it the flu.
that resulted into 7 hearings.
And yet there are some so pissed off that Schiff wants to open an investigation on how to improve our response to COVID-19 (just like there was an investigation into 9-11 and many others).
There was no shutdown of the economy over it. (Almost globally, for that matter.) So you’re correct, there was no outrage to be had. Not from Rs over a non-existent self-hanging, nor from libs over the larger number of deaths back then.
We’re not going to hit even the low-end panic predictions, never mind the hair-on-fire 240K that precipitated stark shutdowns.
cite these supposed failures. the only “failure” i can see was that the wrong reagent was supplied in the first group of tests. hardly trumps fault, but yeah, he is overall responsible. not that it matters one bit at all to the outcome, we’re better off with the tests we’ve developed since then. if the goal was containment, the who’s test with its 30% false negative rate was a poor tool. not to mention the number available was finite and they were needed more elsewhere.
produce this declaration.
the only “declaration” was from a mid level functionary at CDC who may well have just been acknowledging the WHO action.
not to mention… what exactly does declaring a public health emergency actually “do”?
Yeah, don’t hold your breath.
Well thank goodness only 42K have died.
And you do know (hopefully) that the number of deaths at the time was calculated by the amount of data available at the time. As more data is compiled, better estimates could be determined.
since the incidence rates appear to be about 50X higher than reported… which infections exactly did we prevent?
yes, and that’s why I don’t fault the initial actions/reactions.
That, and everything else I say. 
Bookmarking this thread. I hope you’re right. I hope COVID passes and doesn’t turn out as dire and deadly has predicted. A lot of people’s lives depend on it.
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Regardless of what the final mortality rate is, the effect is 60K americans killed by it in the matter of a month and half.
Had we done nothing, the number would have been 4x that.
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may be we don’t actually need one. but there are potentials in the pipeline
Kung Flu *