Another way to look at it is...
They have the flu in Korea as well, just like the US.
You state statistics from the US for an entire year. The cases in Korea started two weeks ago.
Imagine all of these new cases are landing on top of the existing flu cases.
That is the problem. This will overwhelm any local system.
It’s not about getting sick or dying. It’s about systems.
Sound like cicadas. 7 year, 11, 21 l... occasionally you get all 3 in the same year. This year we already have two flu strains killing people and we are somehow functioning. Now maybe we get a third flu strain.
Flu has become like “severe” weather. Every minor storm has a name and could results in catastrophic damages and deaths. Now we are going tto have every new flu strain hyped as the end of the world that only the IS Federal government can prevent. Chicken Little, Boy Crying Wolf../