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It is a lie.Trump’s H1N1 Swine Flu Pandemic Spin“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were about 60.8 million cases of infection with the novel type of influenza virus in the U.S. between April 2009 and April 2010, with a total of approximately 274,304 hospitalizations and 12,469 deaths.”trump has lied about this time after time, and about many other parts of the response as well. BEFORE the first death, Obama ramped up testing and supplies. He did not wait 70 days as trump did. The response was headed up by health professionals.“Contrary to Trump’s suggestion that the Obama administration did “nothing,” officials declared a public health emergency early in the H1N1 outbreak, secured funding from Congress and ultimately declared a national emergency, as we’ll explain below.On top of that, the CDC sequenced the new virus, created testing kits, and the Food and Drug Administration approved multiple vaccines, among other actions.Rep. Michael Burgess, a Republican from Texas, praised the CDC at a House hearing in 2016 for quickly developing a vaccine for the swine flu in about six months — in time for the start of the school year in September 2009. “So that’s a 6-month time frame if I’m doing my math correctly that you were able to identify the genetic sequence of the virus, reverse engineer a vaccine, test it, assure its safety and efficacy, and get it to school teachers on the second week of school. That’s pretty impressive,” he said.Trump said in a tweet that the Obama administration’s response to the 2009 H1N1 pandemic “was a full scale disaster.” While he can have that opinion, there is little to support such a negative view. “

Fear.Fear of being exposed for who they really are. Fear of facing the repercussions of what they have done. Fear of the knowledge of how badly their betrayal destroyed a relationship they once cared about…Or maybe they are just irredeemably bad people!My ex cheated on me. I didn’t “catch” her. I was hurting and depressed (over a lot of things) and she broke down and confessed that she had sex with a man she met in a bar when she went on vacation with her friend the week before.“I did a horrible thing,” she said. My heart sank further.I recently discovered that the office manager and my boss were plotting against me by keeping secret records of supposedly bad things I had done. One of them actually said that I left work early because I wasn’t feeling well, but I finished all my work before I left, “which wasn’t like him.”Uh huh.I also discovered, as my wife had been trying to justify her behavior, that she kept a journal that only contained negative things about me from the first couple of years of our marriage. Reading those journals, one would believe that absolutely nothing was ever good!So, to undersell it a bit, I was upset.She claimed that she drove the six hours back to Gatlinburg in “the blink of an eye”. The next thing she knew, she was in his apartment. “As soon as he stuck it in, I knew it was wrong and I told him to stop,” she said. She talked about how he was so drunk that he could barely get it up anyway, and how she wished that I would show up to take her home. According to her, she spent the rest of the night on the couch after taking a handful of sleeping pills and chasing it with a bottle of whiskey.Could there be a more perfect Country music song?I believed her, though. Worse, I believed that I drove her to it. I was convinced that nobody ever remembered anything good about me because nobody ever wrote anything down that I managed to do right!“I don’t need to write it down,” she said, as she straddled my lap in her tight yoga pants. “I know it in here,” she said, touching her chest where a normal person’s heart would be, “and in here,” touching her forehead to indicate her mind.So I did what any rational person would do in this situation. I asked her if she had a time machine. “You can’t go back in time and undo this. All we can do is move forward.”It was the first time she really talked to me in a couple of months. The first time she had even touched me in as long. We talked about how to move forward. How to get past this. Things she could do, things I could do… I told her that one of the items on her list — that I initiate more when it came to sex — might not happen any time soon. I needed time to get past this.The next day, elements of her story didn’t sit well with me. How did she know that the guy didn’t rape her in her sleep? He obviously wasn’t a man of strong moral character. Did he use protection? Did I have to worry about pictures of my wife with another man popping up on the internet?I asked the first question. She assured me that she was drifting in and out of consciousness all night, and that she would have known if he tried anything. She wouldn’t tell me who he was, though. I didn’t know him anyway, and would never have to face him, so what did it matter?I was distracted all day at work. I pulled up the cellphone records to find out who she had been talking to. I could attach most of the numbers to names that I recognized, but there was one number from Indiana that I just couldn’t place. Googling the number revealed his father’s name and address… But Facebook found him right away.At one time, Facebook’s default behavior for recorded phone numbers allowed them to be searched by the general public. Lucky for me, that was still the case! Impressed with my detective skills, I calmed down a bit after that.When I got home that night, the house was clean and supper was cooking. My wife pulled me into the bedroom and proudly showed off a sheet of paper that she filled with nice things about me. My heart softened further. As non-confrontational as possible, I asked her who “Seacrest Pickle” was. (Obviously I’m not going to put his real name here, on the off chance that he’s literate…) I told her what I had been able to find — his parents first, then his name. She looked panicked for a second and asked if I had called his parents.“No…”“Please don’t. They are very religious people and they would be devastated. hey don’t need to be dragged into this.”I shrugged it off at the time. My critical thinking skills were still suffering a bit, and she did just give me a piece of paper with a bunch of good things about me…That night, after the kids were in bed, things seemed to be back to some semblance of normality. She had given me something important that I needed. I wanted to show her that I could do the same.I asked her if she wanted to have sex.She said yes.I asked her if she was ready. I assured her that we didn’t have to do this right now.She assured me it was okay.I remembered her telling me that she had an appointment with her doctor the next day. I brought that up as a reason to wait.It was fine, she assured me. It wasn’t that kind of appointment.The next morning — only the second morning that I had woken up in my own bed in weeks — I kissed my wife on her forehead, told her I loved her, and went to work.That evening, out of the blue, she accused me of rape.I didn’t understand. She didn’t claim that I took advantage of her in a state of emotional insecurity — she claimed that I viciously and violently forced myself on her! She didn’t call the police. She called a friend from the gym to “protect” her while she collected some things, and if I knew what was good for me, I’d leave the house until she was done.So I did.She didn’t take the kids with her. Everybody knows that violent rapists make the absolute best single parents!She also didn’t file a police report. At least, not at the time. She did six years later, as a stalling tactic when I took her to court for child support. (I can say this about the detectives at the sheriff’s department… They’re smarter than I am, because they saw through her story pretty quickly.)A few weeks later, she confessed to more of the details of the affair. She didn’t ask him to stop, and the suicide attempt happened the previous night when the other guy she was having an affair with decided to go back to his wife instead of have sex with her. In the years since, I’ve pieced together what I think is more of the story. I don’t believe she used protection that night. She confirmed that she received the morning after pill at the doctor’s office that day. She made that appointment before we had sex. She was concerned that she might have gotten pregnant from her affair, and to “save face” she invented the rape story to justify her desire for the pill after having tried to get pregnant for so long.I’ll never know the whole truth, of course. And her mind is so far gone that I doubt she does, either.So why continue to lie? In the case of my ex-wife, lying helped her avoid taking responsibility for anything that happened. Everything was someone else’s fault. It still is.It all comes down to fear. With just a sprinkle of being an irredeemably bad person…

There are three main regions of Thailand, I'll try to break them up and identify things to do in each:The North:Most visitors to the north go to Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai. These cities are very old (even Chiang Mai, "New Chiang") and loaded with culture. While you can go see temples anywhere in Thailand, this is a great place to do it.The north is also where a lot of elephant sanctuaries and camps can be found. Depending on your view of the treatment of animals, you have a couple of options. You can go to a sanctuary loaded with rescue animals when you can learn about how elephants live, wash them, feed them, and do all sorts of other "work tourism."At these places you learn what happens at the other places. If, like me, you went to one of these other places first, there will be some guilt. If you just want to go to them anyway you can go to an elephant camp or trek where you can ride an elephant see an elephant show with hula hoops, dancing, tightrope walking, and painting. You can also ride an elephant and watch other people wash them.From Chiang Mai you can also head off on a handful of jungle treks or other tours. You can also go zip-lining though the trees. It's a fairly large city with most amenities you could desire from hostels to super luxury hotels. Unfortunately, I have only visited this place once, so I can't give any more specific advice than that.Keep in mind that February through April is a poor time to visit this region. The farmers burn off the rice paddies to prepare them for the next growing season.This creates a massive smog and haze problem that can range from unpleasant to unsafe.Central ThailandThis region ranges roughly from Ayutthaya through Bangkok down to Pattaya, though I won't talk much about Pattaya. Pattaya is famous as one big red light district, there isn't much reason to go if that isn't your thing.Ayuttaya:Ayutthaya is the old capital of Thailand and is a collection of old ruins and temples. It is a UNESCO world heritage site, but UNESCO is threatening to take away that title due to poor upkeep and an inability to control the people trying to sell crap to tourists.It is a great place to spend a day or two. An hour and a half or so north of Bangkok, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a tour guide to pick you up from the city in the early morning, drive you to all the sites, and drop you back off at your hotel in the evening.I'm sure it would be an absolutely fascinating place to tour with a well educated tour guide that speaks English, but you will likely have to make due with your imagination and the sparse placards.BangkokThe capital and heart of Thailand, Bangkok is where you will want to spend the most of your trip. These are the most common activities in Bangkok:The Grand Palace (Wat Pra Kheow). This truly is a must see. Home to the famous emerald buddha, there are a wide assortment of temples and statues including a model of the Angkor Wat. The wall has a fascinating version of the Hindu epic Ramayana. Apparently it is the worlds longest painted version or something like that. I once paid a guide to explain it to me and greatly enjoyed the experience. He spent 2 hours telling me the story and barely got halfway around (he knew the salacious parts particularly well).There is so much history and detail in this place, I would highly recommend hiring one of the guides that hang out right at the entrance, where the next photo was taken. Tours usually take 30 minutes or so and they explain the significance of the buildings.Be warned, however, as the central tourist destination in Bangkok, it is also scam central. It is difficult to reach the temple without several people telling you that it "a thai holiday, temple closed." These people will be so helpful, they will suggest another place for you to go. Before long, you'll find yourself at a gem store or tailor wondering exactly what happened. Just kindly tell these people that you don't care that it is closed, you want to go anyway. Getting angry never solves problems in Thailand.Also remember that you must wear long pants and shirts that cover your shoulders at any temple/wat in Thailand.Wat Pho is also worth seeing. It has an enormous reclining buddha. I think its fairly uninteresting, but it is a short walk from the Grand Palace and everyone talks about it. This is also the place Thai Massage was invented.Less famous, but far more interesting is the Golden Buddha in Chinatown. This 5 ton solid gold buddha is the world's most intrinsically valuable sacred artifact. It has a fascinating story.A long time ago, when Ayutthaya was still the capital, the Khmer were coming to sack the city. The monks did not want their massively valuable buddha stolen, so they hastily covered it in plaster. The ruse worked too well. Not only was the Buddha not stolen, but there was no one left who knew that this was anything other than a very heavy very ugly Buddha.Eventually, the plaster covered statue was given as a gift to the Chinese immigrants and moved to Chinatown in modern day Bangkok. While they were moving the statue up to its new temple with ropes and pulleys a rainstorm broke out that caused someone to slip and drop the 5 ton idol in the mud. Since dropping a buddha in the mud is the worst thing anyone could imagine, everyone ran away. The next day, they came back to see that the plaster was cracked and inside was this beautiful statue:The building that houses the Golden Buddha also houses a museum that tells a rosy version of Chinese immigration to Thailand. It includes quotes like, "I was starving in China so I moved to Thailand where the bountiful food assured my family would never go hungry."As T.J. Altman suggested, you should definitely rent a Canal Boat or Long Tail Boat and go for a canal tour. I haven't seen the canals he mentioned (Khlong means canal), but it is generally a great way to see a different side of the city.I would also suggest that you hire a boat to take you to Kho Kret. It is a small island in the river that is famous for its pottery and its special type of ginger that grows nowhere else in the world. I was unable to tell the difference between this ginger and normal ginger, but I guess it's unique and special. Watching people spin clay was interestingBefore you get in a boat, however, you should buy some bread. The boat driver will know where to stop so you can feed the fish. This is a remarkable event. So many fish will go after the bread that they will lift each other out of the water.It is also worth taking a night canal tour or even one of the many dinner cruises. The city completely changes at night and the lights are something to see, like this view of wat ArunThere are a couple of Zoos between Bangkok and Pattaya, less than two hours from the city. These zoos are both fascinating, though neither treats the animals very well and the safety standards are a bit lacking.One zoo is Khao Keow Open Zoo with lots of different types of animals. It is modelled after the stellar Singapore Zoo and is designed in such a way as to provide somewhat natural settings for the animals instead of cages.It has one show that runs every couple of hours. It would be a stretch to call the show educational, but you do get to see amazing animals doing amazing things.The other zoo is the Sri Racha Tiger Zoo. This zoo has tigers everywhere including a tiger showYou can take a picture of yourself or your friends feeding a tiger cub (the ethics of this one alone are reason enough to not support this place, but you can make your own decision).There are also shows involving other animalsThere are a handful of other things to do in the city. You can go to the floating or weekend markets, go to the major shopping malls, or go to the Bridge over the River Kwai (why anyone would drive two hours to look at an unspectacular bridge is beyond me, but to each his own). There is also Khao San, the backpackers clubbing/party road and Patpong, the red light district. This answer is already pretty massive, so I'll leave that to others.The SouthThe South includes Phuket (Thailand is not Thighland and Phuket is not fuckit - h's make hard sounds) and a wide assortment of islands.PhuketThis island itself is unremarkable. There is a town, but it has less culture than Chiang Mai and less to do than Bangkok. The best reason to come to Phuket is to stay in one of the excellent cliffside hotels as a retreat. I spent one particularly enjoyable weekend at a place (Paresa) where this photo was taken from the bathtub:Otherwise Phuket is great as a staging ground to go to other islands.Koh Phi Phi (Koh means Island) is located next to some of the most beautiful locations on this planet.You can also go on a tour of the Similan Islands. Just last week I returned from this tour: http://www.similantour.nu/Where I saw things like this:And This:There are a bunch of other islands worth visiting and things worth doing, but this is a list of most of the places I really loved seeing and visiting. Your friendly Lonely Planet or Wikitravel can tell you more. You can also peruse my Flickr, where you can find a whole bunch more pictures of Thailand http://www.flickr.com/photos/roadtrip-life/.