Since you've got the data wrong, it's any wonder why you'd think it's hype. Around 35,000 die of flu per year in the U.S. And by estimate it'll be 400K COVID-19

Since you've got the data wrong, it's any wonder why you'd think it's hype. Around 35,000 die of flu per year in the U.S. And by estimate it'll be 400K COVID-19 deaths by February. That's 10x in terms of deaths alone. That doesn't account for the economic impact. The sheer willful ignorance required to propose that the economic impact is due to policy rather than self-interested reaction to the virus is magnificent. As if restaurants and bars are at partial capacity or closed only because of laws? It's ridiculous. Laws or not, any business model that depended on close social gatherings, were doomed the moment the virus appeared. And the reality is that quite a lot of business models depend in part on people being closer than 6 feet apart, and they were going to feel an economic impact, no matter what. If that weren't true, we wouldn't see the commensurate drop in the common cold and flu. It's like some people just want to be simplistic and shift the blame, just because they don't want to accept the unfairness of this virus. And also don't want to confront its disproportionate unfairness either, because that would mean having to at least consider making it more equitable in a distinctly ME ME ME! culture.