> “3300 have died from Covid. 6 months into the pandemic. Population 27 million. In 2018 we lost over 10,000 to the common flu. At this pace Covid will have few

> “3300 have died from Covid. 6 months into the pandemic. Population 27 million. In 2018 we lost over 10,000 to the common flu. At this pace Covid will have fewer deaths than the flu in 2018.” This statistic is mentioned often and the generally accepted response is that _only_ 3000 people have died because of Covid precisely because of all the intense measures we’ve taken none of which are taken for normal flus. If we treated Covid like a normal flu the number of deaths would go (way) up