Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Quora: President Trump tweeted that 17,000 people died from Swine Flu under Obama. How does this compare to his Coronavirus numbers?

Someone replied:

First, the swine flu did not kill 17,000 people, as Trump maintained in his tweet. Nor did it kill 14,000, the figure he cited days earlier. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that H1N1 killed about 12,500 Americans between April 2009 and 2010, far fewer people than typically die each year from the flu. (Trump has gotten this figure right on other occasions.)

Second, the president’s characterization of the government’s response does not match reality. If anything, the response to H1N1 was swift in comparison to the current administration’s handling of the coronavirus.

“I assume what he’s trying to say is somehow he’s doing a much better job,” Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of health and human services under Obama, said in an interview Wednesday. “I just find that totally baffling. Anybody who looks at the comparisons very quickly understands that this is not the case.”

10 comments:

  1. Mortgage rates will be going down next month. Some banks might be offering 0.9% interests.

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  2. Most will be able to hold on their properties till recession over as not many new resales. Those still for sale are very old advertisements most more than two years old. These are not serious sellers.

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  3. One or two websites wanted to maintain that they are popular. They just left old adverts without taking them out. Don't believe what you see. It makes that a lot of agents advertise on their site. Some are the agents put a dummy advert to hook buyers.

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  5. Those with no enbloc potential and past 18 years of age with no reasonable pricing will be hard to find buyers. If they cannot sell when the economy was better, what assume them that can still sell with the same pricing Covid-19. Damn sia suay.

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    We can expect some of the following baby names.

    1. Chinese Family.
    Boy : Lim Lock Down
    Girl : Quarantina Lim

    2. Malay Family
    Boy : Mohd. Virul
    Girl : Siti Coronawati

    3. Indian Family.
    Boy : Covidasamy
    Girl : Viruladevi

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    Boy: Social Distan Singh
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    Girl: Koh Ro Nah

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  8. One ageing place used to be sold at $1300 psf. The surrounding brand new ones are now selling at $2600 psf. The ageing place put up their prices to $2100 psf. A difference of 61% upwards in price?

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  9. When one is spending millions, one does not go in blindly, regardless of what the seller thinks his place is worth or what the price he wants?

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  10. Not a good place to invest anymore. Once Ah Long takes up Senior Mentor or Minister this country will go more downer.
    As long got a house to stay can invest in other things.

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