[ArkVark]

Its not a 1 in 100 year event, its a once a decade event exaggerated by a hysterical media and exacerbated by an aged and unhealthy population, and weak regular flu seasons for the past two years leaving a lot of 'dry tinder'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_influenza_pa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic

Sweden's deaths in 2020 are at the highest since 1993. What happened in 1993? A flu pandemic, that no one has ever heard of.

[inthewoods]

200,000 people (at least) are dead here in the US. That is not a small event that is being exaggerated by a hysterical media.

[tux1968]

That's a really shallow analysis though. It doesn't consider how many of those people would have survived without a pandemic, and it doesn't count suicides and degraded quality of life costs due to the lockdown rather than the disease.