Spanish Flu definitely not the same severity as COVID, not even close. Apparently though people's risk perceptions about COVID are wildly off base, by orders o

Spanish Flu definitely not the same severity as COVID, not even close. Apparently though people's risk perceptions about COVID are wildly off base, by orders of magnitude. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimates-covid-hospitalization-risk.aspx https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/354938/adults-estimat... 40% of US Democrats think COVID hospitalization risk if you're unvaccinated is 50%! Fifty percent! The real answer is less than 1%. Other polls have shown similar things for fatality rates, like estimated 16% IFR on average in France. It really makes me realize why people act in such extreme ways, if that's what they think. COVID is to a large extent a total failure of our societies ability to disseminate accurate information. Unfortunately this misinformation catastrophe is largely the work of the very same people who are constantly complaining about misinformation.