Thus far shy of 1 million people have died from COVID globally. But, how accurate are these numbers? How many deaths are not a result of COVID. How many are false positives. etc.

Can we assume the number to be lower because at the start there wasn't any accurate testing. Death rates still seem relatively low even though we're seeing a rise in infections. Which is good news non the less!

With the above said, if we compare the flu "The World Health Organization estimates that 290,000 to 650,000 people die of flu-related causes every year worldwide."

If we discount deaths on the assumption that errors were made then COVID still isn't that much worse than the flu right? There's no immunity to flu either and we still live with it.

We may see a decrease in deaths during this spate of infections and if that remains than we could be dealing with something that is no more of an inconvenience than a flu for the majority of us?