It's more serious than the flu but nothing like the media says imo. Flu kills 300-600k people per year but that study was based off only half the world. Rona is at 1 million right now. Just gonna put some stats out of deaths this year.
All are of this year so far; Added births to show how much of a population growth issue we have.
Total Births: 103.8M
Total Deaths: 43.6M
Seasonal Flu Deaths: 362k
Deaths of Mother's during birth: 229k
Deaths caused by HIV/AIDS: 1.25M
Deaths caused by Cancer: 6.1M
Deaths caused by Malaria: 727k
Cigarettes smoked: 7.7b -> Deaths by Smoking: 3.7M
Death by Alcohol: 1.8M
Suicides: 794k
Car accident fatalities: 1m
Deaths caused by water related diseases: 624k (most of these are the poorer countries without safe water sources)
And of course corona: 1,000,709
Abortions don't count towards the death toll but it's 31.5M