From your own link, H1N1 seems to have a mortality of 0.017% for the entire US population. No matter how you slice and dice the current numbers, the mortality

From your own link, H1N1 seems to have a mortality of 0.017% for the entire US population. No matter how you slice and dice the current numbers, the mortality is an order of magnitude higher if not multiples. And perhaps you don't have any not-doing-well old people in your life or you don't care much for them, but for folks who have such people, it's doubly scary because clearly the mortality is in the single digits percentage for those people.