My point is that the ~60K annual deaths from 'Flu' and Pneumonia (per CDC) are still occurring, but added to this are 320K (and growing) deaths with COVID-19 on the certificates. Also, because this disease is highly contagious, hospitals are being overwhelmed trying to treat all who show up at their doors testing positive for the virus. The large majority will not succumb, but all will need treatment, which means beds, nurses and doctors are shunted to this task, rather than tending to other maladies (e.g. heart attacks, eye surgeries, knee replacements, bowel obstructions...etc, etc)...trust me...I'm getting this info from docs who are actually there on the front line. Our family ICU Doc has been responsible for scheduling all the Docs in the hospital to work on COVID-19 when overflow conditions are reached.
I doubt that anyone on this board would want to have a medical emergency for themselves or family members and find when showing up at the ER that there were no Docs and Nurses available...this is no fantasy, this will happen if things get worse (think Christmas traveling by millions of mask-less people yearning to hug far flung friends and family members)...but then, I could be wrong.