Most of those viruses are actually very deadly, and most of those vaccines actually make you not-get-it-at-all.

The only comparable virus is the flu, and the vaccine is equally shitty [0] as the covid vaccines are.

Death rates for young and (currently healthy) people are very very low (lower than traffic deaths in my country, much lower than suicides), and they are the most affected by the lockdowns. By reopening and focusing on risk groups we could finally start living normally again.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Effectivenes...

800,000 dead americans in less than two years sounds pretty deadly to me

Yes, but that’s because you’ve only started listening to people talk about the number of dead folks recently. 800k isn't nothing but it’s not exactly earth shattering.

Not ones that mutate this efficiently. Flu is the only example and we typically only manage to get high percentages of the vulnerable with it. This is what we want with these types of virus otherwise you risk Mariks scenario. (See the poultry industry issues)