Different party (R vs. D), different standards? ------------- Max Charleston SC
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 10:57 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Remember the swine flu mania? > > The swine flu was a serious enough outbreak for President Barack > Obama to declare a public health emergency in late April 2009. The > WHO declared it a pandemic in early July – at which time 18,000 > Americans had contracted novel flu virus and 44 had died. And unlike > coronavirus, the swine flu was more deadly to younger people. Obama > declared a national emergency when the virus reemerged with a > vengeance in the fall. > > Yet the press barely covered any of these events. > > When the WHO declared the swine flu “unstoppable” on June 11, 2009, > CNN didn’t even lead with that story on its homepage. It was in a > pile of links on the side of the page. > > A week later, there was /no mention of the swine flu anywhere on > CNN’s home page/. > > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
