COVID has already killed around half as many Americans in less than a year as HIV/AIDS did in nearly 40, and has killed nearly three times as many Americans as

COVID has already killed around half as many Americans in less than a year as HIV/AIDS did in nearly 40, and has killed nearly three times as many Americans as the "Asian flu" pandemic (which was in 1957/58, not "the 60s", by the way). And while I get that most countries haven't completely shat the bed with their COVID responses like we have here in the US, those countries doing better (like New Zealand and Taiwan) have been able to react accordingly and return approximately to normal.