The phrase "afflicted everyone" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or event that has caused suffering or distress to a large group of people.
Example: "The sudden outbreak of the disease afflicted everyone in the community, leading to widespread panic and concern."
Alternatives: "affected all" or "impacted everyone".
Fatigue afflicts everyone at one time or another.
Legally, fiscally and politically, the very rich are protected from the forces afflicting everyone else.
After all, death afflicts everyone, and legalized assisted suicide would allow any individual to avoid an excruciatingly painful death.
"Who did that comfort and who did it afflict?" Well, Harmony Korine's new film, Trash Humpers, afflicts everyone, the afflicted and the comfortable.
Inadequate brain healthcare afflicts everyone, so we need to offer treatment for everyone, and for the healthy as well as the clinical.
A few years ago, beset by the same malaise that I suppose afflicts everyone who spends too much time in the bustle and chaos of a big city, I wondered if solitude might be the answer.
It's a form of madness which afflicts everyone from grouse moor owners to conservationist groups, and it reflects an astonishing loss of perspective on the part of those who should be protecting the natural world.
But he made a case that all those steps were necessary, not to help the institutions or people receiving taxpayer money, but to avert deeper economic problems that would afflict everyone for years to come.
The medical profession was reluctant for many years to acknowledge a condition oncologists now call, with inelegant if commendable candour, "chemo brain" – and like every other side-effect, it does not afflict everyone.
The coal afflicts everyone from village families that lose fathers to Beijing residents breathing fouled air that cuts short their lives.
