On the Fact that the Asian Flu of 1957 Killed 116,000 Americans and Nobody Even Contemplated Putting Tens of Millions of People Out of Work as a Strategy to Stop it

So what's the difference today? Are we dumber? Not as compassionate? Or are we looking at something a little more sinister here? Who knows but that's where I'm leaning (the left seemingly wanting to crash the economy in an effort to defeat Trump).