How do I counter the the flu v COVID-19 argument?

There’s ways to fix economic distress. There’s no way to fix dead.

This is how you counter that argument…

The number of CDC confirmed cases in the first 65 days:

H1N1:
April 15, 2009: first infection detected in US
June 19, 2009: 21,449 cases, 87 deaths in US

COVID-19:
Jan. 20, 2020: first infection detected in US
March 25, 2020: 69,344 cases, 1,050 deaths in the US

An update.

In the province of Alberta, more people have died of covid in less than one year than died of flu in the past decade.