Yea, nothing like omitting the bad news in the comparison of the two viruses. H1N1 was a real wussy virus compared to Covid 19. Huge difference in death rates between the 2 viruses.
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Benz3ne
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One with a death rate of 3% of cases versus one with a death rate of 0.02% in the US... I know which I’d be more concerned about!
TobyC
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But with H1N1 they weren't blaming all deaths on H1N1. I don't trust the numbers when money and politics are involved in artificially raising them.
donnie_arko
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Not exactly the most time and tested scientific model, but I had a strain of Swine Flu last year (which hospitalised and almost killed my Dad last year) and I'm 99% sure I had Covid this year. From my experiences with both they were different.
Yes, they are both different and yes you can die from both. The big difference is that Covid19 has been far more deadly in 6 months that the H1N1 was in the 2009 pandemic.
Bob
Who is blaming all deaths on covid 19? As far as I know the numbers quoted so far have been from the CDC so where is the money or political influence coming from?
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Of course. Cov2 is also way more contagious.
I had a little girl last year in my taxi who had H1N1 and was going to make the test. She was coughing and sneezing all the time. No one of course was wearing a mask.
I was 100% that I would be ill in the next days. Nothing happened.
The Roche test is supposed to 100% accurate for a positive result and 97% accurate for a negative, if it's an NHS hospital it should be the Roche one she had. One thing we don't know is how long the antibodies last, I had something that might have been Covid a few months back, my negative test a few weeks ago may also mean that I've had it but no longer have antibodies. This would suggest that any immunity would be short lived. Note that this is purely conjecture until we know for sure how long antibodies last.
donnie_arko
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The pitfalls of trying to do too many things all at once, I didn't finish writing my initial post!
Yes, of course there are differences between the two. I had a different strain to the H1N1, I've forgotten the exact number for it.
When I was staying at my cousin's house, I think only one person didn't contract it in the end. The symptoms were a very serious flu, ie the temperature, cough, loss of taste and for my dad it turned into pneumonia, and he was taken into hospital where they were able to provide treatment and he made a recovery. My symptoms were a less lot serious, I had a really bad temperature for 3 days, lost a huge amount of weight but once the symptoms went I managed to recover reasonably quickly.
Covid on the other hand was a much stranger more difficult thing to recover from, I'd still have occasional symtoms several weeks after my initial ones (which lasted for about a week) for a few days here and there which seem to have come and gone, and even though it's been several months since contracting it, I've not really made a full recovery just yet.
Just from a personal perspective and as I had one of the 'terrible flus' and also Covid, I can safely say Covid is a very different beast. A few family friends lost their lives to the virus, one of which lived around the block from me.
TobyC
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The numbers come from the death certificates, the coroners write C-19 even if you were shot to death. Many in NY and other dem controlled areas were elderly who were murdered by forcing C-19 positive patients to be placed there. They may have died as a result of C-19, but they were vulnerable, and had other health issues to begin with, and they were sealed in like rats on a ship with infected patients.
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donnie_arko
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One of my dad's friends died from Covid in a nursing home, aside from the obvious it was pretty sad that no one was able to attend his funeral, not even his only son.