Well UK deaths from flu are about were 500 deaths per 66M for the most recent year of published cause of death statistics, which I understand (from a couple of

Well UK deaths from flu are about were 500 deaths per 66M for the most recent year of published cause of death statistics, which I understand (from a couple of papers on annual infection rates) represents about 500/13M infections. Covid19 figures in the UK are 26,000 [hospital] deaths for 165,000 confirmed infections. Even if we assume the entire population is infected ... that makes it a minimum of 10x as deadly as flu. We're at a slowly falling ~5000 deaths per day; when care-home and other Covid deaths get added ... I think perhaps you're down-playing it a little too much.