Sick and Symptomatic are not the same.

From the WUWT survey titled "Where are all the sick people", come a reminder that every winter we knew people who were sick with the usual Type A and B flus but most of us know no-one or almost no-one who's had Covid-19.  That's egregious because the Covid-19 numbers are based not on symptoms but on (somewhat erratic) test reports whereas the flu numbers are based on sniffles and coughs and complaints we could see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears.  As noted, the numbers of symptomatic flu cases is 35 to 45 million every year

Here in the same article is a survey of several thousand people.  The questions were "Do you know anyone currently sick with Covid-19" and "Do you know anyone personally who had to stay home because of Covid-19 in the last nine months?"

Most people don't have anyone in their circle who is sick or who was sick and most of the exceptions know 1 to 5 at most.  Is this enough to shut down productive society, to stop relationships, to isolate neighbours, to bankrupt restaurants and hotels and brand people with masks, enmeshing them in curfews even?

When I read reports about "cases" rather than sick people in the most recent stories, I call baloney.
If, however, you want to protect the elderly with other morbidities, let's do it to our utmost.