You are comparing under-50 COVID to total flu. You need to compare under 50 COVID to under 50 flu. The fatality rate for flu is about 1/3 to 1/4 COVID in all age groups except children < 14. In children the CFR is similar, but children are rarely victims of either and are always very compromised to begin with.
Me: "Now I get that's worse than the flu-for-under-50."
But thank you for the exact worse-ness.
You: "The fatality rate for flu is about 1/3 to 1/4 COVID in all age groups except children < 14."
4 times worse certainly sucks ... and I think many of us expected it was going to settle around here in the 'nasty flu' area ... and I knew CDC came out with yet another adjustment to their fear mongering numbers ... I just didn't realize CDC had dropped it into into same-order-of-magnitude levels. Surprised to hear the government say it. I guess the stats were getting overwhelming and they could only maintain the panic levels for so long without losing any semblance of relevance to the discussion.