[QUOTE=Nvrgofullretard;3034906]2018-2019 influenza deaths- 61,200
Covid first case-feb 26th
US deaths- 34,180

In 2 months we have seen half as many fatalities as influenza, and the country has adopted social distancing as a mitigation factor. You can quote .01% or whatever, but this thing infects EVERYONE. If it gets into a nursing home almost everyone will die.””””””

That’s not really true and the flu is just as deadly in nursing homes. The fact we have a flu vaccination that most nursing homes require helps.

Outbreaks of infectious diseases can decimate resident populations in nursing home facilities. For example, Morens and Rash [1] reported an outbreak of influenza A infection in a 37-bed unit of a 5-ward nursing home in Honolulu, Hawaii, that affected 28% of exposed residents, even though 92% of residents had received influenza vaccine prior to the outbreak. Moreover, 6 (55%) of 11 infected residents died of their illness.

This is what flu looks like without a vaccination. Note the 2009 outbreak with vaccinations.

An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the world population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly – there have been five influenza pandemics during the last 140 years. Pandemics can cause high levels of mortality, with the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic being the worst in recorded history; this pandemic was estimated to be responsible for the deaths of 50–100 million people. The most recent, the 2009 flu pandemic, resulted in under a million deaths and is considered relatively mild.