If anything, the current mortality rate is comforting because it is highly likely to be overly inflated. Given the current media drive to fear monger on top of that, and I wouldn’t doubt this could even end up being less deadly than the worst of flus. The bottom end of the mortality estimate is still just ‘the flu’, and that’s at an inflated level being pushed by people trying to inflate it.
If anything, the current mortality rate is comforting because it is highly likely to be overly inflated. Given the current media drive to fear monger on top of that, and I wouldn’t doubt this could even end up being less deadly than the worst of flus. The bottom end of the mortality estimate is still just ‘the flu’, and that’s at an inflated level being pushed by people trying to inflate it.