re: So all the new science is pointing out COVID isn't as bad as the normal Flu

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And you’ve already established that a 40% mitigation is profound with flu from your perspective. I guess that doesn’t carry over to the over side of the equation. It’s all either 100% effective or useless.

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... what, this isnt coherent. It’s 60% reduction in ICU admissions, during the course of the season. Social distancing does nothing of the sort, it just spreads out the timeline.

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Because the idea falls through without that given. So if you go out 3 times in a week to get groceries in that time period, it’s the same as going out 20+ times Got it.

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Absolutely it does. Because the whole COVID season isnt 2 weeks. It’s several months. All distancing does is spread out the infections over the several months instead of being more up front. Flatten the curve doesnt reduce area under the curve. When you do get infected 2 months later the virus is the exact same severity it would have been the first 2 weeks.
This isnt manufacturing a straw man and extreme hyperbolic exaggerations that people arent legit quarantining lmao. It’s just reality. New York still running subways and trains. There is no legit quarantine in reality like you are imagining.

Vaccines actually mitigate severity of the flu. Staying inside and catching COVID 2 months from now is still the same severity. You are still just as likely to die from your COVID infection in march or september.