If you're going to mention flu deaths please at least count covid-19 deaths using the same method.
> people died from the flu in the US and we didn't do anything more than make flu shots more available.
We have internationally coordinated campaigns of surveillance and data gathering. We have rapid vaccine development. We have global, regional, and local flu strategies. We have pandemic preparedness programmes. We put in place public health measures -- you may not have seen those but they're there.
> Moreover, while it's a morbid task, rational adults should be able to ask whether the costs we've paid dealing with this corona virus are worth it. At 758 deaths, and even 21 days later at 26,300 deaths
Do you know that you're undercounting covid-19 deaths? The number you quote is deaths in US hospitals. Many people die with covid-19 outside hospitals, mostly in care homes. This is partly because hospitals in some places are overwhelmed and they're triaging elderly frail people onto palliative pathways. And yet we still have people like you denying the reality by quoting statistics that you do not understand: covid-19 is causing massive excess mortality.
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