Stop it. You’re not allowed to make sense. ;-)
Uhhh...good question but one asked without really knowing the answer...obviously. If the poster had really KNOWN the answer...they would have known that Australia has been hit hard...as well as Argentina. Argentina is just coming out of their season...they've experienced about a 2% mortality rate and their hospital beds have been so full that there has been no room. It is just now that beds are available.
So...ask yourself: If a normal mortality rate for seasonal flu is .1%...and we are experiencing a 1% mortality rate...and at the height it could be as high as 2%...doing a little math...and if 40% get it...we could see 1.2-2 million deaths...compared to 36K.
The good news coming out of the southern hemisphere is that it is not mutating. The DNA sequence is still the same as that seen last spring. That was the biggest fear.