To assert that fewer people get the flu now because 400,000 died is pandering of course, silliness of the first order.
And there is no one here susceptible to that level of pandering anyway.
The flu season is dramatically low, and that's a good thing. We can see 50,000 deaths due to flu in a season, rough average, usually older folks. That doesn't offset 400,000 of course, it's just a comment that at least one bad thing is less bad than usual.
I wonder at times how many would have died of COVID if we let the scientists manage things entirely. I don't know of course, but it's probably not much less than what happened. We probably would not have put recovering COVID patients in nursing homes.