You need to work on your word and reading comprehension.
Sure the actual monthly death tolls vary, but the point of "flattening the curve" was to reduce the average death toll from a potential high of 60k, down to 30k.
And the obvious problem with that is then you are conserving easy hosts, making herd immunity impossible, which then makes any epidemic last indefinitely.
And yes, seasonal flu has killed about the same number of people per month as covid.
{... According to data collected by the
CDC from 2010 to 2020, the agency estimates that the flu has caused 12,000–52,000 deaths annually. ,,,}
That flu has a short season normally, so only lasts about a month. Which means if we had not "flatten the curve" with covid, it would likely have ended in a month as well.
You said:
{... Achieving heard immunity through quarantine is just plain stupid. Quarantine in the absence of widespread vaccination would never achieve herd immunity......... }
And that is obviously all wrong.
Vaccines have not existed until around 1800 when Jenner modified risky variolation into safer vaccination.
So then all epidemics before then, going back hundreds of millions of years, had to be ended by herd immunity, NOT vaccinations.
The reality is what I said.
Which is that there are only 2 ways to end any epidemic in progress.
One is full quarantine, with masks, social distancing, contact checking, etc.
That IS how we beat Ebola.
You said we instead used "isolation", but isolation IS full quarantine.
That is how you fight any epidemic that is very lethal.
The other is deliberate infection of volunteers most likely to survive.
And that is NOT letting the epidemic run wild.
Running wild is wrong because it hits the vulnerable as well as the healthy, so has too high of a death risk.
It also is random infection, so you do not know when a person is infected and contagious, so you can isolate them from the vulnerable.
With deliberate infection, variolation, you avoid infecting those likely to die, and you control when and who gets it, for the smallest possible death toll, and the shortest possible epidemic as a whole.
And no, vaccines have never ended a single epidemic in progress.
That is because vaccines take too long.
They prevent future epidemics, not end ones in progress.
There was no vaccine used to end the Ebola outbreak in the world.
No one in the US or Europe was vaccinated against Ebola.
And NO, Washington beat smallpox by deliberate infection, NOT a vaccine.
There were no vaccines in 1777, and would not be any vaccines for another 20 years.
Variolation is deliberate infection, not a vaccine.
And you still do NOT get it with mRNA injections.
They do NOT teach the immune system how to detect and attack covid, because they do not contain any covid.
They just get our own cells to grow spike proteins, but you can't get our immune system to trigger on spike proteins because our own body already has to use spike proteins. Our own exosomes enter our cells by using a spike protein. If we did somehow get our immune system to attack spike proteins, we would die because then our immune system would attack our own exosomes.
They are now admitting that the 90% efficacy rating of these mRNA injections drops from 90 to 60% after the first month. Then they drop to 30% after the second month. After the third month they will no longer have any effect at all. That is why they are doing "boosters". The "boosters" do not strengthen any immunity because there is no immunity at all. All they are doing is what the first shot did, which is to temporarily stimulate antibody production, and 3 months later the booster will also be gone and useless.