Which, in the case of COVID, is not exactly a great argument for the restrictions either considering that after two years of COVID the world has experienced less than 7 million recorded deaths [0] compared to, at a minimum, after two years of the Spanish Flu we were looking at 17 million deaths (though it could be closer to 50 million) [1]. And that's with a global population that is an estimated 3-4x greater than the world population of 1918 [2] and with far easier global travel.

[0]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu [2]https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-populat...