repeating a post they saw shared on Facebook that's nowhere near the same as reading an actual article with actual experts or looking at actual data of cases and fatalities and spreads. Of course everyone can be wrong and part of the issue here is that this is a new virus that we don't know enough about. But repeatedly trying to compare this virus which is still in the early stages of spread to the regular flu or the H1N1 outbreak of 2009 is not apples to apples. Taking the OP at face value he says 60 million in the US had H1N1 and 12,000 died. That's a fatality rate of .02. COVID-19 is ranging around 3% which is almost certainly high but even if we knock that down to 1% that's 50x higher. If 60 million people in the US got it like H1N1, you'd be looking at 600,000 deaths. And yet his claim is that this pandemic "pales in comparison". We need to not panic. But we also need to be as accurate and realistic as we can. Overreacting and underreacting are dangerous in different ways.