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ProfessorGAC

(65,381 posts)
8. That's Correct
Wed Jan 19, 2022, 10:03 PM
Jan 2022

2018 was a huge outlier with a more virulent than normal strain. 80,000 flu deaths is a huge number.
Funny how the response to a very bad flu & a botched response to COVID came under the same administration, isn't it?
By contrast H1N1 happened during Obama. About 61 million cases, a little over 12,000 deaths. Not 80,000. Not, 800,000. 12,000. Things that make you go hmmmm! When a party that believes government can do nothing right is in charge & sets out to prove that to be true, people die.
But, that 12-20k covers a great majority of years. There were some high 20s & a 30 in the past 25-30 years, though.
That's why I came up with that number.
We don't close businesses & schools & government offices over the flu. We've learned to live with it & have resigned ourselves to the notion that flu is never going away.

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