[2aProtectsTheRest]

Influenza kills an average of 37,000 people in a year. This has killed 180,000+ in 6 months. If it were a flu, it would be the second worst in US history behind the 1918 Spanish flu.

Not worth shutting down the economy or going crazy over, but certainly worth taking seriously and working to end it.

[cmj328]

Influenza kills ~80,000 per year in a society where at-risk people are typically vaccinated and there is decent herd immunity. This has killed 3x the amount. Perhaps without the lockdowns, it would kill 10x. Or even 20x.

And do you know what that is? That's a bad flu. It's not the plague, people aren't dropping dead on the street and families aren't typically wiped out. The same people are dying from this bad flu that normally die from the flu.

second worst in US history = bad flu