This article would be banned on facebook, because the view that covid still has many millions to kill in the US (sans vaccine) is the currently allowed truth.
The fact is, over 150k have died in the US due to COVID, and this exceeds the US death toll from any known war, so there's no real minimizing such a figure.
It's likely precisely due to a failure to contain the spread of the causative virus, precisely due to waffling around lockdown.
US deaths in WWII: 419k (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties)
At best it's an argument that we should do more to stop flu deaths, but at worst it amounts to "If someone ever dies of any preventable cause then we should never take any measures to prevent any other death".