[adam_arthur]

Those diseases actually had high mortality rates, unlike covid.

There's something called proportionate response. Personally I think policymakers should consider the actual pros and cons and the weight of them, rather than virtue signal as if everybody can be saved from every ailment, and acting as if second order effects don't exist.

We also could have locked down every winter to save people from dying due to flu. Why do you think we didn't do that before, when it could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives? Why don't we wear masks 24/7 to protect from flu?

[taylodl]

Because flu doesn’t fill our ICU’s to overflowing and burn out our medical staff. The number of deaths aren’t the only metric that should concern us.

[Gibbon1]

Some nurse friends of mine say a bad flu season will strain the capacity of ICU's. Something people that want to 'live with covid' don't seem to consider.