What’s worst is a bit relative, I’d prefer covid to hiv obviously. What made covid bad was how transmissible it was, everyone got it more or less. Once you ac

What’s worst is a bit relative, I’d prefer covid to hiv obviously. What made covid bad was how transmissible it was, everyone got it more or less. Once you actually got it though it was about as severe as a flu, in the neighborhood of a bad flu, particularly notable for the age-based outcomes that were very much correlated to age. Plenty of flu variants actually effect young people strongly whereas covid was very much “older is worse”. In one sense covid was way worse than any old flu after 1918, in the other sense covid is somewhere between an average and bad flu. Your values might determine which is more important to you. If you were young covid was no big deal, if you were old it was terrifying. This was an odd situation for many diseases. And you have to be honest covid cases and cause of death are counted differently. There are lots of infections which just aren’t tested which would otherwise have much bigger “cause of death” numbers. I’m not a denier at all, the problem is facts get distorted to match people’s personal views and often the things you argue against aren’t entirely wrong, if distorted.