Its not even equivalent to a bad flu
Seasonal Influenza kills about 37,000 people per year on average. SARS-CoV-2 has killed 169,000 in less than half a year. That’s over four and a half years worth it flu deaths in less than six months. And it’s ongoing; currently taking the lives of 1,067 Americans each day (7-day moving average https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us).
In terms of total deaths, SARS-CoV-2 has killed more Americans than any flu outbreak except the 1918 Spanish flu. Between June 1957 and March 1958, Asian flu killed 116,000 people in the United States (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1957-1958-pandemic.html). The 1968 H3N2 (Hong Kong) flu pandemic killed about 100,000 in the United States (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1968-pandemic.html).
If this were a flu (and it’s not - SARS-CoV-2 is as closely related to Influenza as human beings are to snails), it would ALREADY be the second worst flu in well over a century and it’s still ongoing. Not even a bad flu? That’s just demonstrably absurd.
Should we be shutting down the economy over it? Absolutely NOT. Should we be taking it seriously and taking reasonable steps (like Sweden has been) to mitigate its impact while we finish up work on a safe and effective vaccine? YES. President Trump knows that. He’s been trying to tell people that for some time. The message is getting lost in the noise. Some of us are listening to him.