[marcosdumay]

> COVID is not comparable to the flu. It's 3-20x as deadly

Well, there are you, comparing them.

If you do the same with smallpox you will get unrecognizable high numbers.

[kupiakos]

"comparable" was interpreted to mean "similar risk profiles", which is not true.

We don't have a recent smallpox outbreak to compare to for mortality with modern medical treatment. It's possible smallpox is only 5% deadly these days, we just don't know.