ELI5 to me how this and H1N1 differed as it rolled out around the world and we didn't cancel anything?
this one is like 20-150 times more lethal.
Does it also spread easier? Spread more with asymptotic people?
Looking at the H1N1 stats it looks like a lot of people got it and a lot of people died but I don't remember doing crap different in my life in 2009.
I'm getting caught up and I'm sure this has been addressed but there is no connection at all to what H1N1 was in this country and what COVID-19 is. Unlike most on this board, and in America I had a very scary front row to H1N1, this is much scarier. For starters H1N1 wasn't widespread, it was limited to pockets. I was in one of those pockets. I was assistant director at a summer camp that had 23 cases of H1N1. The first important distinction I want to make is how the diseases were diagnosed. H1N1 was a flu, meaning it was much easier to diagnose, in fact it may have been over diagnosed, as at the time other strains of flu were not distinguished. The second distinction that should be pointed out is because H1N1 was a flu, you could have taken Tamiflu to mitigate the symptoms, and for the most part those flu symptoms are what killed people. Those dying from COVID aren't dying from that but from a host of other associated diseases, ones that can't be treated with a series of 5 pills. I had my first born, a 5 month old, among that H1N1 outbreak. 11 years later, I'm much more fearful for her now than I was then, despite this being much less deadly for her age now than H1N1 was then.
Long story short COVID is much harder to diagnose, much more widespread, and doesn't come with the treatment options that H1N1 did.
