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How does the COVID-19 pandemic compare to the last pandemic?H1N1 Swine FluContagiousness (R0): 1.46 (same as flu)Fatalities/Infections: 0.2% (about twice the regular flu).Total US Fatalities: 12,500Covid-19Contagiousness (R0): 2.0 to 2.5 (more contagious)Fatalities/Infection: 2% (about twenty times the flu).Total US Fatalities: 211,000 (so far)On April 24, 2009, just nine days after initial detection of H1N1, the CDC uploaded genetic sequences of the virus to a public database and had already begun development of a vaccine.Within four weeks of detecting H1N1 in 2009, the CDC had begun releasing health supplies from their stockpile that could prevent and treat influenza, and most states in the U.S. had labs capable of diagnosing H1N1 without verification by a CDC test.End of quotes from article.The response to swine flu was considered adequate but not good enough. The response to Covid-19 has been apocalyptically worse for a much more dangerous pathogen. Pence, like Trump, is willfully lying.

Because we are logical people and it doesn't work. It also looks ridiculous and we have never done it.The Chinese are always wearing masks it is part of their aesthetic whether it is coronavirus or Godzilla. British people care about very little. Things pass.I am more concerned about the Chinese calling in debts after an economic collapse. Thats far more dangerous to the UK than the final verification that Man flu exists.

What whistle blowing?Wuhan municipal health department started flu monitoring the same day they got the news there multiple patients admitted for pneumonia. Meanwhile the virus samples are sent to Wuhan Virology lab for sequencing. (Dec 31)Li and his friends are reprimanded on Jan 03 because they published information on Weibo (Chinese equivalent of twitter) without verification. Meanwhile, all the patients are quarantined and people in contact with them are monitoring (but none showed symptom yet).Meanwhile, warning are going out for new type of pneumonia by Wuhan municipal health department. New patients which matches the symptoms are quarantined and observed.By Jan 10th, Wuhan Virology lab managed to sequence the virus and determined it is a new type of virus, and from that point, it is treated as so.Basically, the first cases appeared in Dec 31 and hospital and government in Wuhan both only got the information there are a large number of pneumonia patients at the same time. They immediately responded and it took 10 days for Wuhan Virology lab to sequence the virus (just for comparison, CDC took 12 days to sequence SARS and more than more than a month between first warning in US and the sequencing).Whistle blowing will imply Wuhan government knows this is a new corona-virus on Dec 31. The reality is, of course, Wuhan hospitals only got the first patients on Dec 31 and the virus sequencing is completed on January 10th. Meanwhile, they quarantined all the patients just to be sure while waiting for test result.Edit: I just got more information. It looks like Li is actually an eye doctor, not a respiratory doctor. This means the decision to reprimand him made even more sense. Not only he is publishing information that is not verified, but he is also not qualified to publish the information.