Quote Originally Posted by jp1 View Post
As of today the US is still averaging 1,292 covid deaths per day. At that rate we would have 471,000 deaths for the year. Flu deaths are nowhere near that level, ever, in the past 100 years. The absolute worst flu season in the US in any of our lifetimes was 1957 with 116,000 deaths. The population was half as much then but even adjusting for population that would be 232,000 deaths. For the years 2010-2020 the average flu deaths in the US was 34,200. 1/12 the current death rate from covid. But sure, if one wants to normalize the current death rate I suppose that one can make that choice. Personally I’m not willing to be so casual when discussing a disease that has, in just two years, killed roughly 1 out of every 338 Americans and is still today, at the low end after a big surge, killing us at a rate of nearly 500,000 per year.
You're forgetting the Spanish flu of 1918.