Pointless to debate but I’ll try just this once. It really does not matter anyway. You can do and think what you want to and I’ll do the same. Neither of us or our opinions will change what is happening now so no need to beat each other up. It isn’t even as important as academic bickering.
The flu does not kill at this rate. In just weeks we will soon exceed the death rate of an average flu season. We are at 7,200 now increasing at a clip of well over 1,000 a day, 1,400 today actually. If the death rate remains flat in just 5 more days we will equal the flu death toll of about 12,500 per year.
The deaths today, 1,400 of them are from people who tested positive 5 to 10 days ago when the positive test rate was 9,000 to 10,000. Today it is over 30,000. In two weeks, according to this progression 4,000 to 5,000 a day will die.
I hope there is a skewing of the data in increased testing but I would not bank on that.
Mask and gloves may be the best we can do now. We have lost our chance to stop it early.
Maybe you can see this for yourself.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
No, simply look at the overall mortality rate in Italy, the worst case scenario to date which refutes your assumption. Real data, not assumptions and ideas, show the mortality rate per case to have dropped to 5%.