Speak for yourself, the "concept of freedom" that you talk about is one of the many reasons the U.S is what it is. The freedoms we have do have costs at times like these but the benefits vastly outweigh the costs.
It killed that many with an unprecedented shutdown of the entire global economy to mitigate it.
Now compare to coronavirus, where we were late to start but eventually locked everything down, and we still have 17k deaths in less than a month, and we know that's a lower bound. We're not even a month past the first 100 deaths. The death rate now represents infections 2 weeks ago, which we measured at 14k. After that we started measuring 30k+ new infections daily, so the death rate is likely to get worse by the time we hit 1 month.
[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-e...
If 100 people drown in lakes, that's not really odd. If 100 people drown in the middle of the Sahara a thousand miles from the nearest water, that's weird.
We're past the seasonal flu peak and coronavirus is still on the upswing and hasn't peaked, it's not only killing more people per day than the flu, but it's actually now reached the status of leading cause of death in the US.[0]
Even with countermeasures, covid-19 is, short of a literal miracle, going to kill far more people in the US than the flu this year.
And it's also going already contributing more to deaths by other direct causes by clogging hospital systems, consuming resources like ventilators, etc.
[0] https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/health-news/coronavirus-bec...
