>>11569363>Spanish Flu had an estimates mortality of up to 20%, H1N1 was only around 7% and as you mentioned quickly dropped to less than 1%. The end result ended up being a gross over-reaction because the damn thing wasn't even deadlier than the flu, yet people thought it was going to be apocalyptic (some idiots still think it's that bad if you get it even now)https://books.google.com/books?id=k79_8QX8n44CActually the Spanish Influenza death rate was around 3%, not that dissimilar from COVID-19's estimated 1%. And the earliest reports of 7% mortality for Swine Flu, completely justify the reaction to it, which was about gaining time until more info could be found out about the disease.
It wasn't an overreaction, it was the proper reaction. Policymakers don't have a crystal ball.
>I never said it was covid tierIf you scroll up all the way to the initial discussion someone (I don't know if it was you) implied that COVID-19 measures are an overreaction because 2009 was an overreaction.
This is nothing like 2009, and I don't think 2009 was an overreaction then. It only becomes an overreaction because hindsight is 20/20. With the information policymakers had in April 2009 they made the right call, H1N1 could have been a killer on the scale of the Spanish Flu.
>Most of the world today IS IN LOCKDOWN.>Except it isn't unless you live in an actual shithole.In many European countries the measures are even harsher than in my country. In France you even need to print a special government permit to go out grocery shopping. That is pretty much the textbook definition of a lockdown.
The actual shitholes are the ones doing nothing about this, in Africa, or in some rural areas of the world. Most of the civilized world has taken stringent measures against COVID-19.
