H1N1
Noun
Meaning
H1N1 (uncountable)
(medicine) A strain of influenza, the most common cause of flu in humans; also the strain responsible for swine flu.
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We are getting great marks for the handling of the CoronaVirus pandemic, especially the very early BAN of people from China, the infectious source, entering the USA. Compare that to the Obama/Sleepy Joe disaster known as H1N1 Swine Flu. Poor marks, bad polls - didn't have a clue!
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
I don't doubt that the number of H1N1 cases out there is being hyped. And for many of the same reasons that AIDS was-and still is-hyped in Africa. Everything in Africa's called AIDS. The reason is they get aid money for it. AIDS is the biggest pile of-the biggest pot they throw money into.
Any time a new panic arises, they seize the opportunity to prey upon a frightened population, as was the case with SARS in 2003 and the H1N1 virus in 2009, another outbreak during which we heard about colloidal silver.
As bad as the current COVID-19 pandemic is for Hoosiers and the economy, in the future it may be viewed as an inconvenience when compared with the deaths from H1N1 bird flu pandemic of 1918-1919.
A pandemic involving the H1N1 influenza virus was declared by Director-General Margaret Chan in April 2009.