Yea, but there were tests available because I had one for H1N1 back then unlike today. Went to my large doc family practice yesterday with symptoms of flu he tested me for flu and strep but said they had not been given tests for covid -19 and all family docs have been instructed to send everyone to either country health dept or ER. He said the government has screwed the pooch on this and his best estimate was thousands were walking around unaware they had it and were spreading it.
Who was it that said Pence, Trump, Azar? If you want to get tested you can. Well there are two criteria one have you traveled overseas and 2 have you been around anyone that has.
~~~~~~
'Trump's Chernobyl': Media Coronavirus Hysteria Stokes Public Panic
11 Mar 2020 ~~ By Joy Pullman
Since the coronavirus came on the horizon, media figures have been stoking panic, leading to mass shortages of basic health supplies, business travel cancellations, and market drops, all while the confirmed disease number hiked yesterday to around 0.000002 percent of the U.S. population.
So far, U.S. cases of the basic seasonal flu outnumber coronavirus cases by a factor of 45,000 (using
federal stats for this year’s flu and
real-time tracking of coronavirus confirmations). The flu season has even been especially bad this year, with between 20,000 and 52,000 deaths, compared to 29 so far from coronavirus.
~~Snip ~~
Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas claimed in a March 9 column, “The coronavirus is Trump’s Chernobyl.”
It’s funny that the Washington Post seems to be publishing no articles calling the Wuhan province-originated disease
China’s Chernobyl. The comparison is, indeed, a much better fit for China than for the United States. That communist government also kept the existence and spread of the Wuhan virus a secret, which led to tens of thousands more cases than if it had instead acted quickly to prevent the disease’s spread, like the Trump administration, Taiwan, and Hong Kong did. It is the epicenter of the coronavirus, with reportedly more than 80,000 sick and 3,000 dead so far (although China’s numbers are not reliable and likely understated).
~~Snip ~~
It is probably no accident that the media’s hysterical representation of what so far is a tiny health problem with the potential to grow — but we don’t know how much — mimics the accusations Democrat presidential candidates were making against Trump just two weeks ago. From Democrats’ lips to the media’s megaphone to a public frenzy in just two weeks.
Comment:
I posted this specifically for Debbiedowner... The panic displayed in her post is indicative of the media's fear and scare tactics. There's been too much wish casting by the biased media, so called political pundits and Leftist politicians.
The author of this Op-Ed is correct when she opined, "They care about destroying Trump, and if they have to ruin the U.S. economy to do that, that’s what they’ll do."
Perhaps the DebbieDowner's of America should remember and take to heart the words of FDR at his inaugural speech of Mar of 1933, saying, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”