Well our population is 3x higher but beyond that, I’d love to see the long term trend in deaths.

I assume (based on other countries data) that we’re basically accelerating deaths in the 80+ year old group, heavily weighed to the sick. So basically same as the flu in 2018 when 100,000 Americans died.

If 5 years from now we see a dip in deaths we’ll know we didn’t kill of a segment of health in population but rather accelerated the deaths of the morbid elderly by a year or two.

Not to say those deaths aren’t tragic but it’s very different than 800,000 deaths of people j the prime of their lives.

Well I'd love a source on that but even if true the population of the IS during that time was only 103 million so %-wise that still is still only 1/3

Sauce: https://alltrendsonline.com/what-was-the-population-of-the-u...

Isn’t that related to the USA having much more people in 2020 than 1920?

Population is over 3x what it was in 1918.

Your argument framed relatively instead of absolutely: "COVID has only killed a third as many Americans as the Spanish flu"