The COVID-19 death count is completely fraudulent when compared to the influenza death count.
The CDC counts presumed COVID cases as confirmed cases. Nothing like that applies to influenza.
Also, the CDC counts 100% of pneumonia + COVID deaths as COVID deaths.
In sharp contrast, the CDC counts less than 10% of pneumonia + influenza deaths as influenza deaths.
COVID-19 is a severe common cold virus that is life threatening for the elderly and the infirm.
Protect the elderly and the infirm.
Everybody else - please return to your normal life.
Actually, just the opposite. Influenza statistics are ALWAYS estimates. Look at the data for the Disease Burden of Influenza: 2016-2017 season there were somewhere between 25 million and 45 million cases. 2017 - 2018, 39 million to 58 million cases. They can't tell you within 5 million how many actual cases there were because it's impossible to know. Few cases escalate to medical treatment. It's all statistical analysis and estimation.
Even hospitalizations and deaths are estimates with wide ranges. 2016-2017, hospitalizations for Influenza were between 380,000 and 860,000. Deaths were between 29,000 and 61,000. Even those ranges are only within a 95% confidence level. And even those Influenza statistics take two years to go from "preliminary" to final. The 2017-2018 Influenza season numbers are still listed as preliminary.
This happens with every disease. CDC never gets perfect statistics. Somehow with COVID-19, there's an expectation that they'll know - immediately, to a person - how many people are infected, hospitalized, and have died. It doesn't work like that. It never works like that. Not for any disease. People seem to think our government is usually doing a much better job than it actually is. It's the same government that conservatives like President Reagan have said was too expensive and ineffective for many many decades. It hasn't gotten better with age.
Good corona stats