The population of the U.S. during the Spanish Flu varied between 103,208,000 - 106,461,000. And 650,000 people died from Spanish Flu in America.
The population of the U.S. during Covid varied between 329,500,000 - 331,900,000. And 1,100,000 in the U.S. died of Covid.
You have to put the population, into perspective if you are going to compare.
But overall, more people died from the Spanish Flu/Influenza than Coronavirus.
The Coronavirus mortality rate was 2.40%, while the Spanish Flu mortality rate was 2.50%.
The highest risk population for Coronavirus was 60+ with comorbidities. The highest risk population for Spanish Flu was 25-40 years old.
the Supreme Court set precedent that the government could make people get vaccines under certain circumstances i e they want to go to public school, health workers etc.
Thats not what the government wanted to do for Coronavirus. They wanted mandatory vaccines, and mandatory face masks.
And speaking of masks, masks did nothing to stop the spread of Coronavirus.
Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court upheld the authority of states to enforce compulsory vaccination laws. The Court's decision articulated the view that individual liberty is not absolute and is subject to the police power of the state.
The Supreme Court reaffirmed its decision in Jacobson in Zucht v. King (1922), which held that a school system could refuse admission to a student who failed to receive a required vaccination.
They have that authority, but they didn't use it.
