@Coolhandluke We do take precautions when flu has a bad season or a new strain emerges that appears to be causing severe illness and death. In 2009 we closed over 700 schools, churches stopped shaking hands and changed communion practices. We rushed a vaccine for the new strain.
When I was in Nashville late January early February many schools there were closed for flu. Back in 2018–2019 I know there were some closures around the country.
Average flu deaths for a flu season are around 35,000, right now we are at 150,000 covid deaths so far. Even if you argue some deaths are misclassified it still is much more than flu and we are not finished with a 12 month cycle yet.
Not to mention countries that mask and distancing up are reducing deaths significantly. Why not just wear a mask? Wearing masks will help us keep businesses open, hospitals doing elective surgeries, schools to open, people to feel safe traveling, I just don’t understand your objection.
Covid also is showing some long term mal effects in a portion of people who do survive, which is worrisome.
We wear seatbelts, have speed limits, airbags, and have people take driving tests and check their sight to make driving safer for them and others, how is covid different? On average 40,000 people die in car accidents per year in America. We are way past that with covid.
Look at Florida numbers, deaths are climbing daily now. First we had more cases, now the deaths are going up 2–3 weeks later just as predicted.