CDC estimates 35K US deaths from the flu last year. Most people got the flu in some form or another. We’re more than triple the number of deaths from Covid, an

CDC estimates 35K US deaths from the flu last year. Most people got the flu in some form or another. We’re more than triple the number of deaths from Covid, and we just don’t know who’s gotten it and who hasn’t yet. It has a wide range of effects, most seem to not know it happened, a few are killed quickly, and in between a bunch are debilitated for a couple of weeks. I haven’t noticed having it, I know people who have. Extended family has died from it. The transmissibility and the wide range of responses confounds everyone who can only handle simple rules about what to think and do. I agree that many of the published stats are not that useful, and the sledgehammer shutdowns needed to be careful fine-grained tracking and harm control. None of the points above relate to the narrative, though, but rather to bits and pieces of stuff. We, supposedly the richest nation on earth, cannot get our act together to test effectively or treat effectively. Lockdown damage, ineffective travel bans at the beginning (ban travel, but with tons of sentimental exceptions? No ban at all, really) is self-inflicted harm.