There are so many confounding factors we don't really know the true CFR of influenza and covid even less. The CDC lies about influenza deaths which are actually probably much lower than they say, which would actually make Michael correct, IF the covid19 reported death rates were accurate, and they have been in radical flux since the start and no where near stabilizing yet, and with way too many confounding factors such as financial incentives to inflate the numbers and no real idea what the actual asymptomatic infection rate is yet.
It is going to take a long time before we know the true case death rate, if ever, (there is no reason to trust CDC about this any more than about influenza) but one thing is becoming clear, it is way lower than first thought and very likely way under 1%, just like the flu. But even if it is 5 or 10 times higher than the flu, if still under 1%, it does not justify destroying our economy for something with a greater than 99% recovery rate.
There will never be an honest assessment of this entire debacle as it would expose Government, Media, Democrats, Healthcare Orgs, and the Medical/Scientific Community as LIARS that unnecessarily shutdown the country and crashed the economy. Tens of TRILLIONS of dollars lost, businesses closed permanently, people out of work, people suffering, etc.