Dear Editor:

Such an unprecedented health crisis, you say?

Really, even though the CDC, as of March 20, lists merely 19,000 cases, and just 256 deaths in the United States for COVID-19, compared with Obama’s 2008 Swine (PETA outrage!) Flu’s 60.8 million cases and 12,469 deaths, or the perennial common flu, which in 2017-18 killed 61,000, and 20,000 so far this year?

What’s that, we don’t want another 1918 Spanish (racist!) Flu, which wiped out more than 5% of the world population? Impossible, because medical historians conclude that only 10-15% of Spanish Flu deaths can be attributed to acute upper respiratory infections, with the rest resulting from then-untreatable bacterial lung complications because antibiotics were not invented. Ah, the wonders of modern medicine!

Oh yes, someone please account for the current flu “slaughter” in Italy. Easily explained by their direct flights from Wuhan last fall carrying over 100,000 Chinese citizens who labor cheaply in Italian factories, and their cut-rate ‘medicare-for-all’ hospitals being quickly overwhelmed, leaving the deathly sick elderly on the outside looking in.

Getting worried about the consequences of our marauding media’s inexcusably bad timing, such as Trump grabbing all the credit when the “crisis” vanishes and his economy rebounds overnight, or voter revenge this November for their layoffs, their 401(k) portfolios plummeting nearly 30%, and their complete and final abandonment of hack journalism?

You should be, especially when all that “climate quackery” vaporizes, which will be the sweetest collateral damage of all.

Phil Molvar

Southport