I would normally think like you STM, but the amount of people that have died within 3 months, is what the normal flu does in a year.
So it different.

And I kept thinking 'it won't be that bad, surely??'
Until I heard my dad.
It's very much real, and the normal flu doesn't do what this thing does.
My dad has months of recovering ahead, his lungs took such a big hit.
And, in the end, he didn't even have it 'that bad'.
So how he was already, think about the ones who had it worse then him, and need recovering.