This is key! In the entire world, only 5 million people--or 1 in 1,555 people--have been infected with Covid-19. Of course not as many have died! If a similar number were infected, we would have 170 million deaths. Yes, we can reach that--if we ignore the science and instead cling to conspiracy theories that are abounding right now.
The CDC estimates that in the 2020 flu season, around 43,000 Americans died from the flu.
So, the article already contradicts itself. Already, 93,439 Americans have died from Covid-19--and the number sick is not even close to the number that get sick from the flu every year.
Not even creative and dishonest use of statistics make this author's point.
I know a lot of people (who have ulterior motives, perhaps?) don't like to hear that the lockdowns worked. But they did. As long as we keep up with social distancing and public health officials do their part with contact tracing, testing, and so forth, we still have a window to stop this thing long before it reaches the death toll of the 1917-1919 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
This IS NOT The Spanish Flu.
Never has been and never will be.
The only achievements of the draconian lockdowns were a heavily damaged, if not destroyed economy, increase in poverty, drug, spousal and child abuse and an increase in severe depression and suicides.
Sweden got it right.