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Home Front: Culture Wars
COVID-19 Is Your Friend
2020-03-11
IMAO
I know y’all are tired of hearing about the COVID-19 strain of Coronavirus. Me too. I mean, the H1N1 flu killed 12,469 in the U.S. alone in 2009, according to the CDC. But everybody is pissing their pants over COVID-19, which just yesterday reached 1,000 reported cases in the U.S. Not deaths. That number is 31. Total cases. Compare that to 60.8 million cases of H1N1 in the U.S. in 2009, and 274,304 hospitalizations.

So the panic is overblown, in relation to 2009. What’s different? Trump is president, not Obama.

But there is a good thing from all this weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. The Congresscritters are so concerned about COVID-19 that Congress might adjourn.
    Members plan to raise concerns with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., at their weekly leadership meeting Monday afternoon, two sources said. It’s Pelosi’s decision whether to keep the House in session or make changes in the schedule.

And you were worried that nothing good could come from this.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#3  Jinx!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2020-03-11 14:19  

#2  We haven't heard from Herb for a week - a coincidence?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-03-11 13:04  

#1  It may make Medicare and Social Security solvent again...
Posted by: Glenmore   2020-03-11 12:02  

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