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AprilShowers 159 points ago +159 / -0

If the NIH had counted deaths of Swine Flu as recklessly as their Covid guidelines have us counting today it would have looked like the Black Plague.

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ConsrvspkgNJ 62 points ago +62 / -0

Exactly, I have been saying this same thing for awhile.

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trump_is_john_galt 74 points ago +74 / -0

And literally nobody gave a shit about the swine flu in 2012 other than hypochondriacs. I actually knew about 3 people who had swine flu and it was unpleasant but hardly worth worrying about. Just like the Kung Flu.

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TheGin89 34 points ago +34 / -0

I was just talking about this with my sister, who's a nurse. The swine flu was terrible. While some people turned it into a joke or a meme, we had neighbors and close friends and/or their family members catch it. It was brutal. Some were hospitalized, at least two of those people died.

I know more people who have had swine flu than people who caught the coof. Only 1 person, a worker in the company I am employed at, actually got the coof and passed away after suffering complications due to the coof. Said worker had many other illnesses and was already not working before the coof rage because of worsening conditions, so her death wasn't expected, but it made sense after contracting the coof in a hospital.

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kd5ywa 26 points ago +26 / -0

It really hit my 8 year old daughter hard. She had to miss a ton of school and my mom and her quarantined with each other. I NEVER blamed Obama.

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lerm4comptroller 5 points ago +5 / -0

I'm finally a mere Kevin Bacon away from someone who tested positive. (This whole time I've been saying that I personally know more people treated with shock therapy than have caught the Rona, and I wasn't kidding.)

According to those who know him, he had a sore throat for a few days then got better.

... I am so goddamn disappointed by this humanity-ending plague. I was promised death rates of 1-5% of the whole population and all we got was a mild cold.

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darkgwalchmei 5 points ago +5 / -0

Ill take "STDs That Originated With Kamala Harris" for $1000, Alex

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