You can’t discount COVID deaths by using yearly flu deaths, but then only extrapolating to 8 months. Think of the other four months as “low-activity flu-months”

You can’t discount COVID deaths by using yearly flu deaths, but then only extrapolating to 8 months. Think of the other four months as “low-activity flu-months” and should be obvious why. You are intuitively mixing an attempt to estimate risk per year and risk per infection, I believe. I’m also not entirely sure how good surveillance is for the flu? I could imagine it being recorded as “pneumonia” or “respiratory arrest”, especially when it affects poorer people, or those not admitted to hospitals. (please not that the two issues above would pull any conclusion into opposite directions, then reflect on the relative amounts of hate and love, respectively, before deciding that I must be wrong because disagree)