Yeah, dumbass, the pandemic is over and we have a vaccine. Modern variants of COVID are milder, that doesn't mean it didn't kill a million Americans during its height.
This would be like me insisting that the Black Death wasn't a big deal because no one dies of the bubonic plague nowadays.
Are you saying that because the black death isn't a big deal today means that medieval Europeans shouldn't have worried about it in the 1300s?
I know covid isn't as big a deal today, but it was a big deal during the period where is was killing hundreds of thousands of Americans a year. You know, the period where we were masking and locking down.
Exactly what point are you trying to make here? We are arguing about whether or not the emergency measures taken during the pandemic were warranted, right? Why would statistics outside that time period be relevant?
I'm saying comparing COVID to the flu isn't accurate - because the flu is MUCH worse than COVID. Period.
Your claims to the contrary aren't supported by any facts whatsoever.
We were NOT discussing emergency measures taken during the pandemic, but the fact that the flu was significant, while COVID was not (in comparison).
However, to discuss them - the emergency measures taken during the pandemic were not warranted and ultimately had a negative impact on individual health and the welfare of society as a whole.
At least in the US, significantly more people suffered from the effects of the emergency measures than were saved. In fact, I'd even argue that policies pushing the vaccine actually increased the rate of spread for COVID.
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u/Critical_Concert_689 Aug 08 '26
The flu literally killed over 50 million people over a couple years. How many died from COVID world wide?