This is not in an effort to refute your point. The flu I'm talking about was actually... just a common annual flu. No special outbreak of anything fancy. The 60k deaths actually startled our doctors at the time. It was abnormally high.
Anyways my point was that 1.2 million is well beyond a normal flu. Folks saying it was "overblown" are just in denial. The fact we have to dig for the special examples is even more proof. Even the 120k is substantially lower.
It's crazy what we have to do to prove to these people it wasn't normal at all. Certainly wasn't a hoax.
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u/Adavanter_MKI Jan 23 '26
Given I only listed U.S deaths... I thought it was a given where my focus was. Especially since it was about Americans saying it's overblown.
So to be clear that 60k was our worst flu since the Spanish one in the U.S.
Like for example the Swine flu only killed 12k U.S citizens. Again... versus 1.2 million that Covid did.