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what do you mean "nobody has ever lived through this?" We've had huge pandemics in the past: the plague, Spanish Flu, measles, polio, smallpox. I agree we should be cautious about reading long-term plans.

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I meant nobody alive today. I guess now we could argue about smallpox, measles, and the like, but I am working from the general definition of the last pandemic being the Spanish Flu.

I have added the two missing words to my original post for clarification. Thank you.

Thank you, this context is important. Swine flu killed between 150,000 to 575,000 globally in 2009, and almost nobody even remembers it. HIV is a recent pandemic that many living people have lived through, from discovery to treatment.

And of course the flu, which is different than SARSCoV2, kills between 250,000 and 500,000 each and every year. If you're 30 years old, between 7 and 15 million people have died from flu in your lifetime.

Coronavirus has already killed 100k, and we're still in the first quarter.

Yep, and also we don't have overloaded hospitals, young people critically ill, mass graves, and unplugged global economy for the flu.

It's hard to argue that this isn't _VASTLY_ worse than the flu in both scope and intensity.

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