The flu killed 80,000 people in the USA in 2018. 10% of the country gets the flu Do you think this will be worse in a country with 3x the population? You think it will kill more than 240,000 people?
The flu kills about 40K people each year in the US. We haven't seen 80K in over a decade.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
