By Missy Crane | March 11, 2020
Reports indicate that President Trump is about to declare Coronavirus a “national emergency.”
Many of his critics are saying things like, “Finally, he’s doing something!”
Were those same people as critical of Obama back in 2009?
Of course not, because they weren’t politicizing the Swine flu.
When H1N1 or the “Swine flu” hit America, Obama was fairly quick to call it a “public health emergency.”
Just like in the early days of Corona, before everyone was talking about it, President Trump was on top of things.
You’ll recall President Trump formed an early task force (that CNN mocked as not “diverse” enough) and canceled flights from China.
President Trump has been on top of the Coronavirus situation and working directly with the states. That’s how you do it.
However, back in 2009, Obama didn’t handle the Swine flu so well. As a matter of fact, after first declaring it a “public health emergency” Obama waited a whopping 6 months to declare a “national emergency,” and by then 1000 Americans had died.
But it wasn’t just that where Obama failed.
As New York Times reported, it was also with the vaccine, which as they put it severely “lagged,” while thousands of worried Americans lined up waiting to get a shot and no shots were to be had.
President Obama has declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, allowing hospitals and local governments to speedily set up alternate sites for treatment and triage procedures if needed to handle any surge of patients, the White House said on Saturday.
The declaration came as thousands of people lined up in cities across the country to receive vaccinations, and as federal officials acknowledged that their ambitious vaccination program has gotten off to a slow start. Only 16 million doses of the vaccine were available now, and about 30 million were expected by the end of the month. Some states have requested 10 times the amount they have been allotted.
Flu activity virtually all of it the swine flu is now widespread in 46 states, a level that federal officials say equals the peak of a typical winter flu season. Millions of people in the United States have had swine flu, known as H1N1, either in the first wave in the spring or the current wave.
Although there has been no exact count, officials said the H1N1 virus has killed more than 1,000 Americans and hospitalized over 20,000. The emergency declaration, which Mr. Obama signed Friday night, has to do only with hospital treatment, not with the vaccine. Government officials emphasized that Mr. Obama’s declaration was largely an administrative move that did not signify any unanticipated worsening of the outbreak of the H1N1 flu nationwide. Nor, they said, did it have anything to do with the reports of vaccine shortages. [New York Times [2]]
You likely don’t remember this, since the media was not politicizing Swine flu.
Just remember, the media and Dems are working overtime to politicize this virus in hopes of “damaging” President Trump heading into the 2020 election.
This piece originally appeared on WayneDupree.com [3] and is used by permission.
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