What you miss is that you're comparing average numbers of vastly fluctuating situations. When put head to head, last week coronavirus deaths were greater than the previous leading causes. Larger than from heart disease or cancer.The 300 thousand is about 0.06% of the population, and only 4% of those who already die every single year, from easily preventable things like smoking or obesity.
You just do not understand how to interpret numbers.
Remember the population is 340 million.
That is not true.
Smoking and heart disease from over eating each kill about half million a year, which is much more than covid-19.
And clearly if we had ended the epidemic in March, it would hardly have killed a significant number of people at all, so those who caused us to flatten the curve and make the epidemic last forever, are the ones responsible for the deaths, not really covid-19.
If covid-19 has a very large week, usually that is due to delays in reporting the deaths, and is not reason to consider covid-19 more serious.
If we really considered covid-19 as more serious, then we would have ended it as soon as possible, instead of deliberately delaying it by flattening the curve.
The 2 ways to end an epidemic are total quarantine or herd immunity.
They both work fast, and could have ended the epidemic in March.
The fact we did not even try to end it, shows we do not really believe it is significant.
Delaying the epidemic by flattening the curve was never the right thing to do.
It causes the maximum death toll by giving the epidemic the most time to spread the furthest.
What people aren't looking at is that underlying conditions can be a killer. That's true for any serious illness ie flu....not just covid. If the populace were to eat a healthier diet consisting of fruits, vegetables, nuts, chicken, fish and such instead of fast foods, fats, etc we wouldn't need to take all the drugs to treat symptoms. Influenza takes out hundreds of thousands each year due to compromised immune systems and underlying chronic problems. Pharma drugs aren't the answer. Eating a healthy diet is the answer.