https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
Influenza
2018-2019* Deaths (flu-*associated*) 34,157
The flu season is past. The current one is almost done, too. The coronavirus epidemic is only beginning. Let’s see how it does.
The flu caused between 37.4 million and 42.9 million illnesses in the US during the 2018-19 season; between 531,000 and 647,000 hospitalizations; and between 36,400 and 61,200 deaths, the CDC estimated.
Deaths markedly declined season over season; the 2017-18 flu season, the deadliest in four decades, topped 80,000 deaths, including 180 children. By comparison, 116 laboratory-confirmed deaths in children were caused by flu during the 2018-19 season.
Do you have a link showing we chose 30% unemployment and the total destruction of the economy in an efforts to mitigate hospitalizations and 80,000 deaths during the 2017-2018 outbreak?