Flu has a vaccine reducing the r0 number. We didn’t shut down the nation for last years flu and we didn’t have to build field hospitals to deal with sick peop

Flu has a vaccine reducing the r0 number. We didn’t shut down the nation for last years flu and we didn’t have to build field hospitals to deal with sick peoples. Hospitals didn’t cancel elective surgeries because they had space and resources. Fatality rate would be higher if we had to ration care but used social distancing and shutdowns to flatten the curve.