I get that Reddit is not a place where gracious discussion is usually presented, but, this is an important data set. Thanks for posting. To have reasonable discussion we need data.

It's rare that you see anything in the media about this. Comparisons to the 1918 influenza must point out the proportionality of death. These are rough numbers, but, In 1918-1919 about 500 million out of 1.8 Billion people died. Roughly 28% of the world died. More than a quarter of the population of the world.

In 2020, we have lost just over 1 million people out of 7.6 Billion which is roughly 0.01% of the world population. Death i's horrible, but, it's nothing like the 1918 influenza pandemic so comparisons (and frankly rhetoric) need to be toned down.

People prefer simplicity and resort to ad hominem attacks when anything challenges the norm. But I think that the death rate needs to be confronted and added into our "societal lockdown calculus."

I also think that our front line medical workers need to be thanked in helping bring it down from March. I suspect that part of the reduction in deaths and morbitity is a result of their efforts to better address and fight the virus (as well as other factors such as the age of those contracting it dropping).