[mcpackieh]

> orders of magnitude more fatal

Really? From what I understand the IFR for covid without vaccination was somewhere in the range of 0.5% to maybe 1%, versus the flu at 0.1%. 10x worse; that would be one order of magnitude. That's for the normal flu, the Spanish Flu was much worse than either, about 10% e.g. two orders of magnitude. At three orders of magnitude you're already talking about near certain death.

[JohnBooty]

Apologies, but I'm certain you've misread the parent post to which I was responding. They wrote:

    Another example: Covid. It's a coronavirus. Know what 
    else is a coronavirus? The common cold. But because Covid 
    was novel [...]

They explicitly (and rather unbelievably) compared COVID-19 to the common cold, not the flu.