martybegan
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The Spanish Flu wasn’t during modern times, certainly not medically speaking. COVID is way worse than SARS precisely because it is way worse.
Conservatives trashed medical institutions and scientific processes because they didn’t like the implications. They didn’t want to believe COVID was a problem. They wanted to believe it was a conspiracy to “get Trump”. They still do. Even now you see people say it was just like the flu.
That’s why conservatism is anti-science.
1918 was certainly modern times. And considering we can barely treat viruses right now anyway, it's an apt comparison.
We trashed the overkill response and ignorance of other causes of mortality and economic effects vs. going all in on COVID once it was found to be targeted on the old and sick.
Right now it is pretty much just like the flu. It has attenuated itself over time, and most of the really really vulnerable have had it, been vaccinated and had it, or have died due to it.
Remember your side contains the idiots that mask when walking by themselves and driving in their cars by themselves.