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Billions didn’t. We don’t lock down for the flu.

[RhodesianHunter]

1. The flu doesn't kill as many as COVID did

2. The flu is a known, covid was a near complete unknown. It's easy in hindsight to say that we shouldn't have locked down, but if the thing had mutated and wiped out half the planet, you'd be singing a different tune.

[thisarticle]

I’d probably be dead.