“Overwhelmed” means “hospitals, doctors, nurses, and health care officials all over the world say they’re overwhelmed, and say that it’s due to COVID”. This is

“Overwhelmed” means “hospitals, doctors, nurses, and health care officials all over the world say they’re overwhelmed, and say that it’s due to COVID”. This is what I mean by “conspiratorial” - you need to assume that massive numbers of people in dozens of countries are colluding and lying to believe that medical systems aren’t struggling due to COVID. The idea that COVID and the Hong Kong flu were comparable is, at this point, outdated. For instance, the most liberal estimate (per Wikipedia) of HKF deaths is around 100k in the US. Adjusting for population growth you’d see something like 175k dead (the US population was 200M at the time). The US is now at ~800,000 excess deaths since the start of the pandemic, and rising.