"Worst" flu years must be quite selectively chosen. Clearly the Spanish Flu was much worse than COVID. If you go by age-adjusted excess mortality then most cou

"Worst" flu years must be quite selectively chosen. Clearly the Spanish Flu was much worse than COVID. If you go by age-adjusted excess mortality then most countries reached levels last seen about a decade ago, more or less. The UK for example I think was 'rolled back' to 2007/2008 levels of mortality, Sweden back to 2012. So 10x worse than worst flu years just doesn't seem right at all and I wonder where you got that stat. One thing that is clear is that the general population systematically over-estimates the severity of COVID 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... There's a similar French poll out there, probably they exist for many countries. IFR estimates in these polls are wild, like 100x-200x higher than the correct values. So it's worth checking that you're familiar with the true numbers, as many people aren't, yet think they're well informed.