Well, my Dad was battling cancer for the last 14 months of his life and died from it in early May. For 18 of the last 20 days of his life, we weren’t allowed to see him because he was in the hospital due to a blood clot in his lung, and the hospital’s policy was to allow no access to patients in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus.
Although he never contracted COVID-19, we got him home 2 days before he died, and he never woke up during those last 2 days. So essentially, that virus robbed him and all of his loved ones of being a part of the last 20 days of his life.
So while you may disagree, statistics don’t even begin to tell the whole story of how ridiculously much worse this virus is than the flu. The only reason your health care worker can say they haven’t seen anything more than what they would normally see for the flu is because every one of us has made sacrifices, some of them heartbreaking, to limit the spread of this virus. If you think it’s the same as the flu, ask yourself this: when was the last time that a hospital shut out family members from visiting a sick loved one in the hospital for the flu?