5 Million cases for a something we are trying to get rid of. Something which has now killed 3times more people than the flu. Something which should have 'gone

5 Million cases for a something we are trying to get rid of. Something which has now killed 3times more people than the flu. Something which should have 'gone away' in summer. Isn't the issue not what numbers we currently have (which is bad) but numbers which we would have if we would NOT do what we do? We could have had New York, Italy or Spain globally everywhere...