Dphoenix
Love lasagna, hate mondays
Now look at flu deaths from last year, and the year before that, and the year before that, and ask yourself what it might mean that there's a bunch of covid deaths and way fewer than the usual flu deaths? Hm. What are the chances that such a large number of flu deaths would just vanish into the ether this year?
Only about 34,200 for 2018-2019 season, which is still massively lower than the 160k we've already had here in the USA by a large magnitude. And given that people were isolating and on lockdown for much of March/April, I would expect to see many vanish into the ether as well - yes, masks can help with other diseases like the flu, as does social distancing...
It ain't mass hysteria when there's 160k deaths. That number isn't inflated in the slightest.