You usually make sense.
Seasonal Flu deaths in US normally near 36,000 per year. No one is discounting 1000 deaths. The departed were hopefully loved and will be missed by their loved ones. Most realize that 1000 flu related deaths are not out of the ordinary. People die every year from the flu and complications.
Yes, but this, the H1N1, started as a foreign-based viral phenomenon unique to Mexico, and came to our country mostly likely via open borders and a cavalier Obama Attitude to begin with, (probably him hoping it would get worse so he could solidify more power), in that sense the 1,000 dead (and growing) were just “collateral damage” and I highly object to that as an American.