manqiangrexue
Brigadier
@plawolf brought up a good point I forgot to address. The 61M figure for Swine flu is the CDC estimate of the total number of people infected with the vast majority not confirmed because they did not require hospitalization or professional treatment. This figure cannot be confirmed or compared to China's 6,000 number because that is the number of confirmed hospital cases. The Wuhan coronavirus has ~6,000 hospital confirmed cases with ~130 deaths, putting the hospitalization to death rate at ~2.2%. The death rate of the swine flu amongst the hospitalized cases was 11% in the general population, rising to 18-20% in persons aged over 50 (source: ).I'm already going off topic so I will keep it to a minimum & I won't talk any further about Xi after this post (anyone else can talk about him as much as you want though, I'm not a mod) , my main issue with Xi Jinping was back during the HK protests, I always thought he should have sent the PLA to HK to bring back order, instead he chose to do nothing in HK, I have nothing against protesting against a government for the sake of better services & rights but HK protesters were merely protesting beacuse they support sepratism.
Also, here's a good read for you to grasp what a rough flu season actually looks like. It will be of great educational value to those who are "100% certain" they will survive any flu but not the "deadly" Wuhan coronovirus: . In summary, in the 2017-2018 flu season, America saw 900,000 hospitalizations and 80,000 deaths, numbers so high I'd say that the US quite possibly suffered a worse pandemic, but didn't call it one in order to stem panic.
PS. I agree with you on Hong Kong, and I would have liked to see what you wanted to see, but I have trust in the CCP that the correct decision was made by people with more information and more strategic thought than me. Chinese people turning on their own president is what all enemies of China want to see.
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