@metal-brain said
The only reason this small community had someone noticed the covid count included people that did not die from covid is because everybody knows each other in that small community. In a big city nobody would notice that.
Your population factor is a valid one, but let's do the math.
How much has the population increased since 1918?
What percentage of the population died from the 1918 flu?
What percentage of the population died from covid?
What the hell are you all babbling on about?
As to date 4,7 million people have died of Corona.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Spanish flu killed (rough estimates) 25 to 75 million people.
Corona deaths are nowhere bloody near Spanish flu deaths.
Or are you all babbling on about the US again? There, yes, the death rate is near the death rate of Spanish flu.
This is probably due to the vastly increased population size. And during the Spanish flu people tended to stick to the measures they were asked to take.
On a bright note: far fewer US citizens died of the bubonic plague…