Trump said not to panic. That’s what I recall. And even if we had over 2 million dead we could still function. However the total national death count from all causes doesn’t appear to be on course to exceed 2019, so something fishy in the stats.
We have around 250,000 excess deaths as of right now per CDC. I don’t know where you’re getting that we aren’t going to exceed 2019 totals, but unless we discover immortality pills in the next 2 weeks, we absolutely are exceeding 2019 totals by quite a lot.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Scroll down to the graph that says, "Weekly number of deaths (from all causes)" to compare deaths in 2020 to those in 2017, 2018, and 2019.