"imagine the death rate if we didn’t have lock down or social...

"imagine the death rate if we didn’t have lock down or social distance.
this thing is real & I would rather the flu over this any day ."

Actually, we don't need to imagine the death rate.
We now have sufficient data to be able to make a reasonably accurate prediction of it:

The answer, for people under 60 years of age, is 0.045% (4.5 one-hundredths of one percent)
(Refer: https://hotcopper.com.au/posts/46245842/single)

That's flu-esque, in terms of orders of magnitude, if I'm not mistaken.

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