These sorts of comparisons are, I would respectfully argue, not very helpful because the various causes of mortality are additive, not competing to kill the sam

These sorts of comparisons are, I would respectfully argue, not very helpful because the various causes of mortality are additive, not competing to kill the same victims (generally). We don't need a perpetual cycle of coronavirus in addition to the perpetual cycle of the flu that we already have, in addition to suicide and every other cause of death. The world's health organizations are trying desperately to curtail it before it becomes a norm. Which is why saying "Oh, why cancel this it's no biggie" is just so misled. If the world was in a situation where we could seriously contain and eliminate the flu, we would surely take every possible measure to do so.