That’s my point. We DID see it. Constantly.
But at such a low rate in the USA and UK that it didn’t register until COVID... Because we didn’t have other bird flu epidemics exponentially increasing the incidences.
Basically, the reaction to COVID deaths is a bit like people with a crippling fear of flying but jaywalk without thinking about it all the time, waking up one day to a major multi vehicle pile up on their doorstep involving pedestrians, and suddenly the realisation sets in that they always were far, far more likely to be killed crossing the street than by dying in a plane crash.
The last time we really saw a deadly pandemic in the UK was a century ago, with influenza. We rarely saw it at all during severely cold winters but they’re few and far between in the UK nowadays. So we’ve gotten complacent.
The plague we’re taught about at school in the UK had a double whammy - the first interaction was brought in by ship and needed close contact (bubonic plague) to spread from town to town, but then it went airborne causing pneumonic plague all over the country.
Japan, Korea and China have been observing the effects of bird flu on their doorsteps for far longer than us, and it’s why they locked down far faster and far harder than we did. Can’t blame COVID vaccines for that.
There’s a film made many years before COVID where the world was hit by a flu pandemic and masks/gloves/social distancing were all introduced to slow the spread. That wasn’t really a dystopian plot about gubmint control, it was based on scientific analysis of how best to combat a deadly pandemic involving airborne viruses... But it’s also based on historical fact. Those who avoided close contact with the infected escaped bubonic plague, and those who covered their faces were less likely to get pneumonic plague. Folks who survived the latter invariably had genetic or congenital factors working to their advantage, but we now know there were downsides to those factors.
A virus can enter through your eyes. The mask is useless.
We DID NOT see young healthy people dying constantly before the clot shot! Stop trying to rewrite history. I can say with absolute confidence that as far back as the late 60’s a healthy, especially fairly young and healthy person dying suddenly for no apparent reason was BIG news, raw to the extreme that had everyone discussing it. Made the news until a cause was at least guessed at.
Now such people are dying way more often and the news obscures the cause of death or tries to move on before it can be challenged. Also my wife has been a nurse for decades, she has never seen so many younger healthy people dying as they do today after the clot shot, it is so noticeable that when she is together with her nurse friends often they discuss it and they all have the same opinion
Stop telling people such lies, I know what my past experiences are and know the truth from them, yes people died, but absolutely NO they have not died this frequently like this.