@LuFins-Dad said in Joe Biden on COVID-19 deaths reaching 100,000 in the USA:
In all fairness, most of the deaths were over 6 months (December 68 - May 69) so the rate isn't that much higher for COVID-19. Also, while there was no lockdown, the population density was about 40% less back then, the number of people in the workforce was less than half what it is now with a much higher percentage of mothers staying at home, fewer people rode subways or planes, all of these things that we believe helped spread this pandemic, the people of 1968 were a little more naturally insulated from...And their death toll per capita was still not that different than COVID-19. Yet, nobody that I've spoken with that was alive then really recall it as being considered all that important. Hell, it doesn't even make the Wikipedia list of important events in the US for that year. I find that astounding.
If we had a 6 month flu season that took 100k lives using excess death calculation and in a non-locked down environment, most of us would shrug it off too. Look how many people shrug this off despite being so much worse.