> 650,000 out of a global population? More people have died from seasonal flu every year

No, more people don't die every year from seasonal flu:

“The World Health Organization estimates that worldwide, annual influenza epidemics result in about 3-5 million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths”

I was close.

We're only 6 months through the year and it took "massive economy-rocking" mitigation efforts to keep it that low.

You're nowhere near close.

So now that you have learned you are wrong, are you going to change your preaching on how its not as bad as a flu?

COVID-19 is so far an entire order of magnitude ahead of flu for the season, and COVID-19 is still going strong. You could hardly be farther from correct!

In the US, the CDC recorded 15,620[0] deaths due to flu for the last season. We are already ten times that for COVID-19 and still losing people every day.

They extrapolate from the 15,620 confirmed deaths that many more deaths are due to the flu but not tested as such, and so they estimate a range that centers around 42,000 for the last year. That range is still less than one-third of COVID-19's known minimum, and a check of "excess death" figures suggests that next year, the CDC will have a similar statistical model suggesting deaths are several times higher than we know right now.

Again, you are off by anywhere from 10 to 30 times.

[0] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/comparing-...

No, the usually usual annual range of total flu deaths being 250k-500k doesn't make a claim that every year more than 650k die from that cause close to being correct. 650k is not even close to being less than 250k.

1) links to stats please? 2) we're not even near a full year of coronavirus 3) this is the amount of deaths after all the measures taken to slow the spread.