[Nifster]

It was not just another flu. You don’t get glass lungs from the flu. It was indeed deadly

Some people have no clue how sick people were getting. ICUs we’re indeed overwhelmed. A few to a few dozen beds per hospital could not handle the load

[bray]

Did you even read the post? The Remdesivir is what killed them. Glass lungs? You have no idea what you are talking about.

[fireman15]

It was not just another flu. You don't get glass lungs from the flu. It was indeed deadly

My wife and I volunteered and were paid for work we did at the Life Care Center in Kirkland Washington. We hadn't been there for a couple of months before they became the first care facility in the USA to be hit hard with Covid. They were hit hard because of a number of factors, but mostly because they were one of the only facilities not a hospital who provided ventilators and feeding tubes for their patients.

The “glass lungs” that you refer to is somewhat of a misnomer as related to Covid and largely was a media creation. It was fixated on I suppose because the name caught people's imaginations. People can be diagnosed with what is now called "glass lungs" from numerous causes.

https://www.healthline.com/health/lung-opacity

My wife is a nurse who spent nearly her entire career working in multilevel skilled care facilities much of the time as a department head. The flu can be a real killer. Many of the facilities that she worked at would lose 20 or 30 residents in a month during a bad flu season. We have both been huge proponents of this population getting their flu shots to prevent this type of carnage. I cannot tell you how many hours, days and weeks I spent driving people to locations where they could get free flu shots.

Covid is rightly compared to the flu. The later variants are now less serious than many strains of the flu.

And no, it was only in very few locations in this country that ICUs were overwhelmed by Covid. Hospitals were forced to lay off tens of thousands of people because they lost so much business during the “pandemic”. This was largely because of media coverage that made people fearful and government meddling that caused people not to go to the hospital.