[nickalaso]

The response to the coronavirus has been many orders of magnitude more strict than the response to the flu. All this while be less than an order of magnitude as deadly, probably 3X-4X. This is why I think it is perfectly valid to compare it to the flu.

The collective response has been outsized to the actual risk of death, and I believe this is due to fear rather than sensible policymaking.

If it really was about reducing all cause mortality, most governments could do so much to reduce the primary causes of death, like heart disease and cancer, by banning things like cigarettes and enforcing healthier diets among the populace.

Imagine what banning sugar alone would do to the rates of obesity and type 2 diabetes in the US. But no one wants to do that.