These questions must be asked about how our nation should handle COVID-19. Public policymakers need to give us answers. - TheBlaze

These questions must be asked about how our nation should handle COVID-19. Public policymakers need to give us answers. - TheBlaze

"Here is the official CDC report on last year's flu season. 

..."Nationally, mortality attributed to pneumonia and influenza peaked two times at 7.7% during the weeks ending February 23rd and March 16th."

What this means is during those time periods last year, 7.7% of the people who contracted pneumonia and the flu ended up tragically dying. 

And that was with precautions we don't have yet for COVID-19 — vaccines, public awareness, etc. 

And yet, there was no call to "flatten the curve" during those spikes to save an overwhelmed medical system. 

Furthermore, CDC estimated 65 million Americans nationwide were afflicted with the flu during the 2018-19 flu season. 

...By comparison, as of Sunday at 6 p.m. ET, the current U.S. death rate from COVID-19 was 414 deaths out of 32,356 cases reported, or 1.27% of those whom we've confirmed have it so far have sadly perished. 

Of course, given the limited testing it's likely many more Americans than this currently have been exposed. 

And 50% of those 414 deaths were from two states alone (Washington & New York).,,

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