“..Over 80,000 Americans Died of Flu in 2018... 90 percent of those deaths were in people over age 65”
That’s interesting. In the cemetery in Texas where some of my family rests, there are many graves from 1918. Most show dates of birth/death indicating infants or toddlers.
The “Spanish Flu” of 1918-19 was very different than a typical flu season in recent decades. The victims back then were disproportionately YOUNGER people — and most older people seemed to have a general immunity to the disease. I read an article over the weekend suggesting that the immunity among older people may have been developed from their prior exposure to a similar viral strain from the 1870s or 1880s.
That’s because that flu affected younger people by amping up their immune system response...essentially overstimulating their immune systems. COVID-19 is not doing that.
I suppose you think you are making a clever point, but it’s really not. The majority of deaths that occurred during the Spanish flu were from secondary bacterial pneumonia and sepsis due to lack of antibiotics and sanitary living conditions. Also, there are 0 deaths from coronavirus of anyone below 9 years of age. Apple and oranges.