where was the panic during the swine flu outbreak ?
Because there was a sane adult in the White House! Also -
VACCINES.
Barack Obama, then president of the United States, being vaccinated against H1N1 flu on 20 December 2009.
By 19 November 2009, doses of vaccine had been administered in over 16 countries. A 2009 review by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) concluded that the 2009 H1N1 vaccine has a safety profile similar to that of seasonal vaccine.
Unlike most strains of influenza,
H1N1 does not disproportionately infect adults older than 60 years; this was an unusual and characteristic feature of the H1N1
pandemic.
[9] Even in the case of previously very healthy people, a small percentage develop
pneumonia or
acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
2009 flu pandemic - Wikipedia