Comparing death rates in the population is a misleading comparison. In a world of endemic measles most people get measles at some point; new outbreaks tend to hit mostly children, because they weren't born yet during the previous outbreak. To compare disease lethality we have to look at the number of infected patients, not the total population.

If measles were a brand-new disease introduced today, it would also be a bloodbath.

I'm saying that if measles were a brand new disease, it's possible that it would cause a pandemic that's even worse than covid-19 was. Measles is nasty.

This entire line of reasoning makes no sense at all. Any new disease could cause a massive death toll if we had no resistance to it at all.

Our public health systems responds to reality, not theoretical casualties in populations that do not exist.

If measles was killing 1 million people per year we would've absolutely locked down much harder to stop the spread. That is just common sense.

It never was doing that. It was killing like 10k people or less per year. So any kind of comparison of our response to covid is ridiculous, except in acknowledging that even though measles was far less dangerous to our population, we still have mandated vaccination against it.