I looked into this whole Swine flu vs COVID 19 beef a little bit. At first I wasn't, but I thought I would type this up because it helps put the current pandemic into perspective. I'm about to copy and paste info directly from Wikipedia, a source that almost everyone knows how to use, as well as the CDC official website.
The 2009 swine flu pandemic or swine flu was an influenza pandemic that lasted from January 2009 to August 2010, and the second of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the first being the 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic), albeit a new strain.
Some studies estimated that 11 to 21 percent of the global population at the time – or around 700 million to 1.4 billion people (out of a total of 6.8 billion) – contracted the illness. This was more than the number of people infected by the Spanish flu pandemic,[6][11] but only resulted in about 150,000 to 575,000 fatalities for the 2009 pandemic.[12] A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness resulting from the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than that of the yearly seasonal flu.
The last statement shows why we probably didnt shut down the economy over H1N1,
probably but IDK.
Now I picked out and bolded some info because not everyone is good at reading comprehension. The estimated deaths over this 1.667 year period was 150,000 to 575,000 and the confirmed deaths by the WHO was less than 20,000.
The deaths now being reported from the novel coronavirus is over 50,000 using worldometer and John Hopkins, and this data started on January, not even including stats from November and December. Over a third of the
lower estimate of H1N1 in just 15% of the time, which is 3 months.
From April 12, 2009 to April 10, 2010, CDC estimated there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3-89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086-402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868-18,306) in the United States due to the (H1N1)pdm09 virus.
This is from the CDC website. Almost 6000 have been reported to have died from the novel coronavirus in just three months in the United States, almost half of the official number compared to the year time period of Swine flu in the above data.
I broke it down in numbers cuz people like numbers so much when comparing things.
Basically in short, its too early to compare. The source cited in the above[12] came out about 2-3 years after the swine flu pandemic, but the early data trend of the novel coronavirus shows: That its spreading faster and killing more people faster.
Now stop bringing it up lol. Even if youre just pointing out opinions you may not agree to, stop bringing it up. Its a very flawed argument that uses many false analogies.
Some things I didnt check though are the novel H1N1 daily case data from this time period, how hospitals were affected, and the death rate over the first three months. But I'm done with it, yall can look it up youre really that interested still. Also feel free to fact check me and check my numbers cuz I make a lot of typos.