I have not seen anyone try to make that argument at Free Republic.
If the CDC counted covid-19 deaths the same way it counts influenza deaths, covid-19 would look like a moderately serious flu season.
Protect the elderly and the infirm.
For healthy children and adults: “It's just a common cold virus, Bro.”
It ain't it's something very different, likely unleashed from a chicom lab through sheer chicom imcompetence.
All the same, the chicoms cannot be trusted and for the survival of the planet, they should be "evicted".