Exclusive — Pence: After 60 Million Infected with Swine Flu on His Watch, ‘We Can’t Trust Joe Biden to Deal with the Pandemic’

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Exclusive — Pence: After 60 Million Infected with Swine Flu on His Watch, ‘We Can’t Trust Joe Biden to Deal with the Pandemic’​

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Matthew Boyle

12 Oct 2020 The Villages, FL

THE VILLAGES, Florida — Vice President Mike Pence told Breitbart News over the weekend that, after Democrat presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden oversaw 60 million Americans getting infected with swine flu—H1N1—America cannot trust Biden to deal with the coronavirus pandemic.

Pence, who had just wrapped a rally with several thousand supporters here on Saturday, sat down with Breitbart News aboard his and President Donald Trump’s campaign bus for a lengthy exclusive interview before flying back to Washington, DC. In the interview, topics covered included the economic recovery, the U.S. Supreme Court, Biden and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) dodging on court-packing, and the coronavirus pandemic response.

Pence noted, as he did during his debate with Harris, that 60 million Americans were infected on Biden’s watch with the swine flu during the H1N1 pandemic. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates, 60.8 million Americans contracted swine flu infections in the first year of that outbreak, from April 2009 to April 2010, while more than 273,000 were hospitalized but only 12,469 died.

Pence said that Obama and Biden did not ban travel from Mexico during that time and that Biden’s own former chief of staff, Ron Klain, has said the U.S. was lucky that the swine flu was not as deadly as other viruses like the coronavirus; otherwise it would have been a mass casualty event. By comparison, the coronavirus pandemic this year has seen just under eight million confirmed cases in the United States during the Trump administration—more than seven times less confirmed cases than during the Obama-Biden swine flu pandemic—but a higher number of deaths at more than 210,000 now. Original predictive models before the Trump administration’s various interventions to stop the coronavirus pandemic expected millions of dead Americans—with many millions more cases—meaning the actual numbers are much lower than expected at the outset in the spring. . . .

. . . As a result of all of this, as well as Biden opposing taking out Osama bin Laden and the Obama-Biden administration failing to rescue Kayla Mueller from ISIS, and more, Pence said Biden cannot be trusted to lead the United States through national security, economic, and public health crises.

“We can’t trust Joe Biden to be in the Situation Room,” Pence told Breitbart News. . . .
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sloancaprice (putting forth an argument that does not follow) . . . .
Well, by that logic, then Pence just disqualified Trump since 220,000 Americans have died of COVID . . .
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No it doesn’t. By that logic (that takes the whole picture into account) it shows the virulence of COVID-19 is much higher than the swine flu.

It also shows that despite the HIGHER degree of contagiousness of COVID-19,
President Trump’s administration had LESS cases of the COVID-19 corona virus
than the Obama-Biden administration had with the even the less-catchy swine flu.
 
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sloancaprice said:
We’re discussing the logic of Pence claiming that Biden can’t be trusted to handle the pandemic because of Biden’s track record.
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Really sloancaprice. We’re discussing the logic of Pence claiming that Biden can’t be trusted to handle the pandemic because of Biden’s TERRIBLE track record.

sloancaprice . . .
Given Trump’s and Pence’s track record in handing contagious diseases is much worse . . .
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You are assuming the conclusion is correct and putting that into your premise.

This is the fallacy of begging the question.

Of course not all “contagious diseases” are just as “contagious” (easily spreadable) are they?

And not all contagious diseases are just as virulent (deadly) are they?

Pence’s logic dictate that both he and Trump are qualified from being President. And Joe Biden is NOT qualified.

But you have to assert the real and correct science before accurate comparisons can be drawn.
Which Vice President Pence did.

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To the readers here: the corona virus is much more “spreadable” than the swine flu (of 2009).
Yet the reach of the spread of Trump’s management was far less.
The Obama-Biden spread (of even a less spreadable virus) was much worse.

The death rate of corona virus is high. Corona virus is a much more virulent or deadly disease for older people.

The numbers on the deaths have been played with too and I have posted here many examples of how and why that conclusion is drawn from coroners themselves.
 
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sloancaprice said:
I’m glad that Pence has articulated clearly why he and Trump are not fit for office.
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I’m glad that Pence has articulated clearly why Biden is not fit for office.

But of course aside from all this happiness, the argument isn’t emotional.
 
sloancaprice said:
Not quite. Pence articulated a reason he felt Biden was unfit for office, but, by Pence’s standard, both he and Trump are much more unfit for office. I’m glad to clarify that for you
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I really wish I could give this more than one like.
 
I don’t remember shutting down due to swine flu. Or hospitals being overwhelmed.

Or there being mass casualties and funeral homes being overwhelmed.

Maybe the deep state and the fake news kept it from us.

Those meanies.
 
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