I understand the comparison and think the us is having a hard time fighting the virus with its mostly unhealthy population. But I agree a bit with (my understanding of) the parent.

The US could make a lot of laws to reduce the number of deaths from all diseases. Tax fast food, make it illegal, whatever. But we decide against that. I feel like people saying "this can save people and doesn't cost that much" are not taking into account that a lot of things can be done and potentially save people, but we have decided as a society not to do them.

Also comparing WW2 deaths vs covid death is a terrible comparison. Most deaths during WW2 (in the us) mustve been from healthy, young men vs covis where it's mostly the old and already sick.

US states with the most authortarian COVID-19 responses have the highest excess deaths.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/country/united... (sort by fatality rate, still skewed, excess deaths are the only real measure, note how some obvious cols dont have totals, must have been to hard to sum?)

Wall to wall MSM doom about AZ @ 1.81%!

"In about two month the casualties in the US will exceed WW2 - and likely long term disability victims will range in the millions."

False. Note you dont even try to source that with excess deaths. I linked and even posted the normal death counts. --What's the non-covid-19 pneumonia # for this pandemic?--

Excess deaths (see cdc link above) are the only reliable statistic. And they should be a list of pairs, (birth_date, death_date).

Comparing this with WW2 ~500k dead comparitively young people is just wrong (seriously, why even comment if you are going to ignore the yearly #'s? Was 2016 WW2 too?). This branded flu season is maybe roughly 2x a normal flu season, and if we look at excess deaths only, or factor in what happens when people avoid the doctor for months.... it's less than that.

WHY NOT use the masks forever?