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80,000 COVID vs. 80,000 Flu Deaths

As of today (May 11, 2020), 80,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.In 2018, 80,000 Americans died of the flu. It was a bad flu year.You can watch this on YouTube too.It's fascinating how we look at death.The Infection Fatality Rate of COVID-19 is about 10 times worse than influenza. Therefore, if we didn't shelter in place, perhaps we would have lost 10x more Americans than the 2018 flu season, which would mean about 1 million deaths.I've been called callous. But imagine if:We treated airline flights like rocket launches - and took 7 hours to go through all the safety checks.We set a 10 MPH…

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