I didn't say deaths were rare, I said it's rare for healthy individuals to die from covid. Over the past decade, we've seen yearly deaths from the flu spike as high as 650,000 globally, which to your point, is about a factor of 5x less deadly than covid has been.

290,000 to 650,000 die globally to the flu each year.

My biggest gripe throughout my career has always been that prior to covid, people would constantly come into the office when they were clearly sick with the flu.

Hopefully, as a society, we've grown more conscious of the importance of staying home, canceling plans, etc when you feel sick.

But the reality of covid is that it's not going away. It's been introduced to the world and will continue to infect people as the virus mutates. At some point, the pandemic will end, but people will continue to catch covid for years to come in all likelihood. The difference will be that it will no longer be at epidemic levels.

I think this is a concept that most people don't grasp. Covid isn't going to just cease to exist.