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Phoenix20 said:

Deaths from this virus have been severely under tracked, it would be political suicide to state the true number of deaths caused by this virus. Double the number of deaths that are claimed worldwide and you would be closer to the number of deaths caused by this virus. This virus kills lots of people of various ages, not just the old people. It is a lottery whether or not you survive from the virus. People should be taking this virus very seriously because it is likely you may die or become seriously sick from it. Once in 100 year Pandemic, will continue on years as it kills millions around the world.

That's a very loose definition of 'lottery' and 'likely' you got there.
The last century alone we had at least two flu pandemics that were deadlier, in 1918 and 1957, and one that might have killed twice as many people as Covid did during the same timespan, in 1968. And there's the HIV/AIDS pandemic with 35 million dead and counting.
And the four of them were true killers of children and young people, unlike Covid. I think we can all agree that the social and emotional damage of this pandemic would have been far more devastating if Covid's IFR dynamics were inverted.