I’m not and never have compared it to flu but we did have over 50000 excess deaths in the 18/19 flu season. We had hospitals on black alert (or shut, as it’s also known) and, primarily, it killed the elderly who die in their hundreds, every day from a variety of respiratory illnesses.
What this has done is wipe out thousands of people who might have been saved by the NHS, had it not shut down. Cardiac, cancer, diabetes and mental health referrals down by 50% suggests a lot of non-Covid deaths are still waiting down the line.