This will be a death toll that hasn’t been seen in a lifetime. Yeah, maybe the economy won’t collapse. Maybe it will. Regardless, it’s unkind to downplay the severity of the situation.
COVID19 is scary and we should respond, but we are panicking well out of proportion to the threat. We should continue to make our best effort to prevent it from spreading while getting society back to some kind of normal footing, and then use the lesson as an opportunity to improve our preparations and planning for the next time.
This is one of those cases where the disease is far worse than the cure.
For 2017, the most recent year, it's ~450 deaths total for the UK [1], vs an anticipated infection rate of 20% of the adult population and 50% of the rest. That's 450/15M, 0.003%.
Reported death rates are O(1%) for Covid19.
Could you explain that discrepancy?
The BMJ (British Medical Journal) has some discussion of the controversy of over-reporting of flu deaths here [2].
Re those CDC figures, do you really have ~200,000 people hospitalised with flu each month in USA?
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[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...