FLASHBACK: Jon Stewart, Others Mock 2009 ‘Swine Flu’ Outbreak, Disease Killed 12,000 Americans

Originally published at: FLASHBACK: Jon Stewart, Others Mock 2009 ‘Swine Flu’ Outbreak, Disease Killed 12,000 Americans | Sean Hannity

The mainstream media and their allies in the Democratic Party have used the recent Coronavirus outbreak as a political tool to damage Donald Trump; accusing the Commander-in-Chief of promoting conspiracy theories to minimize the risk of infection.

The same people were less concerned with the Swine Flu Outbreak of 2009 under President Obama; with comedian Jon Stewart mocking the illness as ‘Snoutbreak ’09!’

The disease would ultimately claim the lives of 12,000 people.

“H1N1 flu virus? What do you catch it from droids?” joked Stewart. “The name change comes at the request of the pork industry. They worry that somehow pigs, an animal that eats its own feces, could now be thought of as unclean.”

“The problem of what to call the virus, like the virus itself, is now spreading,” he quipped.

Between April 2009 and late 2010, US officials believe the H1N1 or ‘Swine Flu’ virus infected 60 million Americans; requiring 270,000 hospitalizations across the country.

Watch Stewart’s comments above.