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by chrisjs96 2137 days ago
80k died in 2017-2018 US flu season. I'm sorry but where was the shutdown? Luckily this whole thing is going to be gone November 4th.
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"Only" 80k died from flu, without needing a shutdown, but 150k have died from covid-19 even with a shutdown, so how is that an argument against the covid-19 shutdown?

At best it's an argument that we should do more to stop flu deaths, but at worst it amounts to "If someone ever dies of any preventable cause then we should never take any measures to prevent any other death".