H1N1 had a very low mortality. It spread to a billion people because it wasn’t taken seriously enough. Had it been even close to as dangerous as COVIS-19, it would have been a disaster.
Right, all the more reason to test/triage. My family laid low for a few months during H1N1 as we had a child with serious medical issues at the time. My friends acted like I was crazy. But then we lost a child in our community and one friend suffered Guillain Barre syndrome after getting it.