One person spread COVID-19 to 45 out of 60 other participants at a choral recital near where I live, before the lockdown was in place. All in the span of one recital. 2 of them are now dead. 3 more ended up in the hospital.
They followed all the recommended pandemic safety procedures - there was no person-to-person contact, none of the attendees felt sick, there was no sneezing or coughing, everyone kept distance from eachother. Simply singing in the same room was enough to spread the virus.
And many of those who did not die were still infected and spread the disease to those they were closest to.
If given a bowl of skittles and being told that 2% of them are poisonous to those over 50, would you then hand that bowl to your grandparents? Would you take them to a normally attended service and hand them out to everyone within 6’ of you?
Estimates put it between 1 and 3%, last I looked. The specific number doesn't change the magnitudes of difference in mortality rates between the two diseases - they can not be considered to be equivalent.
They followed all the recommended pandemic safety procedures - there was no person-to-person contact, none of the attendees felt sick, there was no sneezing or coughing, everyone kept distance from eachother. Simply singing in the same room was enough to spread the virus.