It did, but then, certain other disease dried up as far as death.
So is the count suspect.
I can tell stories of how the counts are poor - pro and con. It’s not clear how counts are made. And I have medical connections…including my niece who was in the Hopkins COVID unit for a solid year from when it started.
As it is, we’ve passed the 2-year mark yet did not reach the minimum level to be equivalent to the Spanish Influenza. Yes we have advantages, but that’s only going by minimum estimates from the Spanish Flu. Using higher estimates this is a piker.
It’s sad, but it still was no reason to uproot our entire society for.
Flu dried up because hand sanitizer and distancing stopped transmission. Flu’s annual death counts were always far below Covid. Typical factor of 10. It’s not even relevant. It’s also VERY important to recognize the global realities. No one does anything in South Korea for US vote by mail.
As for disrupting society, that also was global. The DNC had no influence over choices made in China to do draconian lockdown.
When people are upset about disruption of their money, and that is in fact what people are talking about when they are angry about disruption, then they are obligated to decide how many deaths per dollar, or dollars per death, are acceptable to them. How many of these Federal Reserve QE created pieces of inked paper should be the tolerance level per Covid death?
Decide and quote the number. See how many politicians anywhere in the world will sign onto that metric.