You've selected anecdotes from two very specific places. But that cuts both ways. There are plenty of places where so far they have been equally or less affecte

You've selected anecdotes from two very specific places. But that cuts both ways. There are plenty of places where so far they have been equally or less affected than a flu season. For instance the UK is doing worse than most other countries in Europe but currently there are quite a few years within my life with similar death numbers by this point in the year: http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/ http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/ Or look at the graphs for Europe: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/ There are some countries where it's higher than the flu seasons in the past 4 years. But there are other countries where it's equal or lower. Overall weekly mortality in the EuroMOMO reporting countries peaked at approx 2x that of 2016, approx 20k deaths per week more. Given the large populations of these countries this is a tiny change. To put that in perspective 20k people is 0.03% of the British population alone, but you'd also need to include all the other countries to get the real percentage.