> You’re proving my point that people lost their minds.

Nah, minds were not lost. Italy simply had the bad luck to show us what "zero response" looked like.

> mostly normal person a bad flu

Nope.

Italy now: flu season for the year = ~3000 deaths

2020 Italy COVID for the year = ~74000 deaths

Bit of a difference. And that was with Italy also trying lockdowns and everything else once they realised how bad it was.