[throwaway290]

> don't think "covid doesn't exist" was ever a widespread position

Semantics... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/03/donald-trump...

> you could argue it's not as bad as some flus.

A flu kills at most 50 000 people per year in US. Remind me which flu killed 1+ million in 2 years and cost US 16 trillion bucks?

[tim333]

Spanish flu, started in Kansas, killed 50-100 million.

[throwaway290]

I said kills, present tense. But it's semantics. If there was a mega deadly spanish flu today and republicans said it's just another flu or don't exist it's all the same.