You keep saying that this is not a pandemic (as if a pandemic is defined by the fatality rate...it isn't). The fatalities in the US from COVID-19 compared to the estimates of the ones from the current FLU season are somewhere between 4 to 2 times larger with the caveat that the deaths from COVID-19 are still growing.
Sure, it is not an apocalyptic illness by any standards but it doesn't mean it doesn't have severe consequences in terms of human suffering. Downplaying it by saying that "it's just like the flu" is not a good thing to do.