Your comparison doesn’t make sense, the same measures we are using to save lives from coronavirus also stop the spread of the flu. For instance in Hong Kong the

Your comparison doesn’t make sense, the same measures we are using to save lives from coronavirus also stop the spread of the flu. For instance in Hong Kong the flu season ended 3 months early because they began social distancing in January to protect themselves from coronavirus. The difference is the flu is much less deadly than coronavirus when you catch it. The only reason flu deaths are higher for the year at the moment is because the flu is already spread worldwide starting every year in flu season, which begins around September/October in the northern hemisphere, whereas Coronavirus didn’t even emerge in humans till late November/December, was highly localized to one region of China and transmission out of china was slowed by a dramatic lockdown of 750 million chinese citizens and travel restrictions placed by external countries in January. The video Paul Graham references includes many examples of people saying they aren’t worried about the disease and that even if they catch it there’s no reason to be worried, in reality we are seeing plenty of relatively healthy people who would not have been killed by flu dying from the disease.