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> You’re proving my point that people lost their minds.

Nah, minds were not lost. Italy simply had the bad luck to show us what "zero response" looked like.

> mostly normal person a bad flu

Nope.

Italy now: flu season for the year = ~3000 deaths

2020 Italy COVID for the year = ~74000 deaths

Bit of a difference. And that was with Italy also trying lockdowns and everything else once they realised how bad it was.

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These people always insist on literally ignoring the body count. Drives me insane. It was so far removed from a normal flu and everyone in the medical field will tell you that emphatically yet here people are acting like it was nothing.

I never said there was less deaths, don’t put words in my mouth. I said for most regular people it’s likely a bad flu.

Did you know Italy’s death rate is still elevated, even 5/6 years after? Best go into lockdown since we don’t know why.

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