“So no, this is not “the same as the flu” - whatever makes you think that?”
The total deaths from covid-19, this year, will be around 60,000. That’s around the number from the 2017 flue (80,000).
https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc-us-flu-deaths-winter/
You might not like it (why?), but it’s true. Game over. Stop being duped.
(Flu deaths are always estimated, so they have a range each year. They are never sure of the actual number. And estimates go up and down, depending on who, and when, you ask. Why? Because it’s no big deal. Nobody thought it was critical to actually count, let alone “mitigate.”)
You say total deaths from COVID-19 will be 60k this year?
It’s just about 1.5 months since the first deaths in the USA and it has already reached 45k.
The 2017 death toll was an outlier, the average death toll is 35k.
In any case, COVID-19 looks like it could reach the 2017 outlier peak in May or June