Joe Rogan Reviews Numbers of H1N1, Other Pandemics

This virus, I've been saying this about all viruses, that diseases are like demons. You know, and we just, if we were losing, like, have you seen the numbers too? This is something that my friend Steve, who's a doctor, sent me. And this is a fucking crazy, a series of crazy statistics. But the crazy statistics about how many people die, like it puts it into perspective, I mean, all life lost is valuable. All life lost is a tragedy. I'm not saying anything other than that. But what I'm just, I'm not diminishing anyone's loss of life. But what I am saying is I was stunned when I saw the actual numbers. So 2017 to 2018, H2N3 pandemic killed 61,000 Americans. Did you know that? I didn't know that. I didn't know that. Jamie, I've heard numbers like that recently, but not before. 2017 to 2018, hospitalized 30,453 and estimated affected was 894,700 people by that flu. That's crazy. Overall death rate was 7.5 with a peak in January 2018 of 10.8. Again, I'm a moron, not a doctor, reading you a text message. Maybe I shouldn't be doing that. Maybe someone should look into this. 2009 pandemic, no, this is the one that Burt said he had. He said that H1N1 killed 83,300 Americans. Death rates range from 4% to 33% for pediatric. 0 to 22% for 18 to 64, for 0 to 4% for those over 65. Man, this is crazy. US cases, 60.8 million, 274,000 hospitalized, 12,469 deaths in the US. I'm just going over all these different ones that happened. Flu of the year of 2020, cases reported, 45 million hospitalizations, 415,000 deaths, 48,000. That's for the 2020 flu, this flu season. There's so many people that die of the flu. But obviously, when you see healthcare workers freaking out, this is different. So what is different about it? It's all at the same time. Yeah, it's all at the same time. It's new. It's a new virus. They don't have immunity for it. They don't really know how to cure it. And it attacks the respiratory system. And it seems to have a real quick turnaround from I'm not feeling so good to I'm dead. It happens very quickly for some people, shockingly so. It seems to affect different people in different ways. There's a lot going on with this one that has smart people going, we need to fucking stay home for a bit. Just everybody chill. No large gatherings. Just chill. Do you ever get the flu shot every year? I feel like I get the flu almost every year, but I never do the flu shot. Maybe you should do the other thing. I don't know. I didn't get it last year. I don't get the flu shot. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a bad idea? I would. It seems like it's a... It's healthy, but just eating well and not getting the flu shot and then making sure I'm in the sauna and I exercise well and sleep well. And I've been able to shake it off. But it's a good move. It's probably... I probably should get the flu shot. And if I got the flu again, maybe I'd be like, fuck man, I should have got the flu shot. Let me just get that flu shot. But I mean, whether it's diet or whether it's all the shit I'm on, all the different vitamins and hormones and the fact that I'm in the fucking sauna for 25 minutes every day, but I rarely get sick. It seems like you would get it more just because you're around gyms and saunas and places where there's a lot of sweat and... The only cooties I've gotten in the gym that scare me is staff. I've gotten staff a couple of times. That scares me. Did you ever get ringworm? Yeah, I got that a bunch of times. I got that twice at least, maybe three times, which is not that bad. You put Lamacil on it, stay off the mat for a little bit. And then the products that I started using prevented or saved me from that. It's a company called Defense Soap. Yeah, I use that. It's the shit. Because it's all natural stuff. It's all tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil. And it's not antibiotic in that it doesn't kill off all the good bacteria. It just coats your body with this soap and it's all natural. It kills the bad bacteria, but it doesn't kill good bacteria. I don't understand how that works, folks. And people have known that forever. The tea tree oil and eucalyptus oil are good for infections and preventing infections. I use it because I'm like a yeasty boy. I'm very yeasty. Are you yeasty? Yeah. You got yeast infections? I give them that. Give them out. Give them out. You're lucky if you get one from him. He doesn't have them out like awards. Yeah, I've been lucky with diseases. Knock on wood. But this is a weird one if you're compromised. People that have lung issues or people that have had like... I hate to say it, Brian, but vaping. Vaping, yeah. I think cigarettes and vaping. I wonder weed smokers though. Because I know it's always like... The things that also are deadly that also affect so many people, like that list that I read off, is that right? Saying that shit I read right, what do you think? It seems like it would be. But nowadays, you get all these doctor lists on Facebook. You never know what's real and what's not. This is from a friend of mine who's a legitimate doctor. Is that correct? Are those numbers correct? We should probably say. Let's Google the numbers again. So what did I say? Let's start off with the first one. The first one was... Michael Yeo apparently put out a video today. Oh, did he? Yeah. He's back. Okay, let's look at this one. The 2017 to 2018 H2N3 virus pandemic that killed 61,000 Americans. I was looking at up the hardest part with that right now is those numbers have been accumulated over a year plus and we only have had a month. Sure. Whatever, to collect these numbers right now. Yeah, I mean it even says 2017 to 2018. But over a year, it killed 61,000 people. Now the other one was the big one at the end. The flu for this year, for 2020. Cases reported 45 million hospitalizations, 415,000 deaths, 48,000. That's worldwide? No, it's the United States. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. I know. That's what I'm saying. I haven't even heard about the flu this year. Well, that's the thing. It's not sexy because it happens every year. Right. It's like the sky monster. If the sky monster never appeared before and then one day the first tornado hit and tore apart Nashville, we'd be like, what in the fuck is God's mad at us? That's how they used to feel back in the. It's just one person's case. I remember last week I read someone that got tested for the flu and they tested positive and then weeks later got tested for the COVID-19 and then tested positive for that. But they weren't tested for COVID at the time. They were tested for the flu because they didn't have a test. Right. So there could be a lot of people that tested positive for the flu maybe. Sure. Never had a COVID-19 test. Yeah. Could be. Yeah. I mean, do they mean I guess it depends on whether or not they have the tests available in different places too. Right. I'm just not reading too. There's a new test that just got made today. That's faster results. Oh yeah. Yeah. There's a five minute test like it's like an easy bake oven of testing. Jamie, what are we going to do if you test positive? Oh yeah. I don't know. Yeah. You're in contact, bro. I already have it then. I could be because I'm testing positive doesn't mean. Right. Could be. You're out there spreading it. Carrier. Get out of here. Son of a bitch. Don't pet my dog you fuck. Oh that's too late. I didn't even think of that. They sent the email out, what was yesterday, Saturday I guess. So like it's too late. When the fuck did they get it? Right. That's when they got it to the hospital and called the apartment building and said, hey you might want to let everybody know. Are you washing your hands a lot? You guys doing the whole thing? Oh yeah. I'm washing the shit out of my hands. My hands are annoyed at me. Dried. I'm lucky I got some hand sanitizer. Oh before the crash. Right before it happened, the crash, I was opening up for Tom Green in San Diego. And Tom Green was the first person that I knew that was kind of like panicking a little. He's like I just bought a crate of Lysol, mini Lysols. And he was spraying the microphone down on stage. And I was like, he's taking a little overboard literally like a week later. Everyone's doing that. Tom Green ahead of the curve. Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. It's spooky dude. Who was it that had a friend? Was it Tom Papa whose friend was warning him long in advance? No. It wasn't Tom Papa. It was Burt Kreischer. Burt Kreischer had a friend who was warning him way in advance. Listen, you need to isolate. You need to get your family out. And he was like, what? It was Burt, right? Put your shirt on. Yeah, take your shirt on. Put your shirt back on. You need to isolate quickly. Get away from everybody. Because it's going to spread right through America. And he was like, what? And this was apparently in February. And he was like, this lady's crazy. Wow. And then he texted her like in the beginning of March when it was on and popping. He's like, you're right. My point about showing those numbers was not to diminish the impact of this current pandemic. It was just to highlight the fact that we live in a war zone. We live in a virus war zone that takes out thousands of people every year in this country. And I don't think most of us are really keeping our eye on that. You know, like you hear about deaths by the flu and, you know, they're never they're never shocking deaths by some new thing for some reason, even if it's the same number of deaths or less even. Right. So far less freak us the fuck out. It's like it's happening more, though, like if you go on TMZ, it's like somebody dies every day like this old, you know, philosopher or this old poet or this old musician. And like you never hear that in the past, like, oh, he died of the flu. That guy died of the flu. That guy died of flu. Here we go. Jimmy just pulled some up. A total of nineteen thousand five hundred and forty three laboratory confirmed influenza associated hospitalizations were reported by flu serve dash net sites between October two thousand nineteen and March twenty one twenty twenty forty one thousand one hundred seventy two point one percent were associated with influenza virus. That's like fourteen thousand fourteen thousand. What did I say? Forty one. Oh, whoops. What am I dyslexic? Influenza. OK, five thousand three hundred thirty five twenty seven point three percent with influenza B. That's true, too. Right. If you get an influenza a shot and its influenza B, you might catch it anyway. That's annoying. So that's a lot of people. Right. So we got nineteen thousand five hundred and five thousand three hundred and four thousand fourteen thousand one hundred. Yeah. My theory is that you're born sucking your thumb. You're supposed to suck your thumb your whole life and it was supposed to keep your immune system strong so that we would fight all of this. Look at the hospitalization rate was sixty seven point three percent per. Oh, no. Sixty seven point three per one hundred thousand population, which is higher than all recent seasons, except for the two thousand seventeen two thousand eighteen season rates in children zero to four years old and adults eighteen to forty nine are now the highest CDC has on record for these age groups surpassing the rate reported during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Hospitalization rates for school age children are higher than any recent regular season, but lower than rates during the pandemic. So what happened in 2009 when the H1N1 kicked in and killed all those people? They didn't shut anything down. When I think what I've been hearing is like after a thousand people died is when things started changing. And I don't I don't really remember what was changing back then. I don't I don't either. Do you remember? No, we just talked to bird again. Bird had it. He had the H1N1. He did? Yeah, he did. Yeah. He said it was the sickest he's ever been in his life. It was 2009 when it was all going down and he said he couldn't sleep. He was so uncomfortable. He was in just constant pain and aching. He said never never felt sicker ever in his life. And that killed a lot of people. I've had a flu like that before where you know you're just puking shit and you can't hold anything in your sweat and you're waking up. You know, does that 2009? I don't think it was. I feel like it was like five years ago or something like that six years ago. Get you. They can get you. I hope another thing that comes out of here is people take their fucking immune system more seriously. Support your immune system. You know, I mean, if this makes a big just a little shift in the number of people that get healthy, little shift in the number of people that start taking vitamins and exercising and you know, just do something man, something, put a heavy backpack on, go for a walk, do something. Listen to the podcast.