The flu is also really bad. Making sure you are vaccinated before working in a hospital is a requirement is taken seriously, and the 1918 flu outbreak was one o

The flu is also really bad. Making sure you are vaccinated before working in a hospital is a requirement is taken seriously, and the 1918 flu outbreak was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. Don't underestimate the flu. Sometimes, I wonder if we would respect it more if we had truly or nearly vanquished it like Smallpox and polio. The way we have it now, just barely under control with the constant specter of a new pandemic, such as h5n1, seems to lead to less respect for how dangerous it really is, since we just see it as a really bad cold with a kind if ineffective vaccine instead of the dangerous killer that it actually is. If coronavirus was as bad as the flu, we'd be in a really bad situation. But it doesnt seem to mutate as easily or have the ability to rearrange its genome on the fly, so a vaccine might be able to defeat it properly and for good.