Everyone seems to foget the H1N1 pandemic of 2009-2010 killed over 400,000 people and there were over 60 million reported cases and over 12,000 deaths alone in the USA and unusually over 80% were of people UNDER 65 not like the current that old and chronically sick are the susceptible.
This Corona by comparison is nothing and will likely fade fairly quickly as they are already introducing a vaccine and the Swiss have been on top of it as well working with the USA.
If you are looking at a virus that is already played out, then the absolute numbers can easily look very dramatic. The typical flue looks pretty dramatic, when viewed in absolute numbers. What you are missing is that the estimated mortality rate of H1N1was 0,01%-0,08%, where as the current estimated mortality rate of corona is just above 2%.
If current mortality rate estimates are correct and corona infects as many people as H1N1 did, then we are looking at death tolls that will absolutely dwarf the swine flue epidemic of 2009.
Mortality estimates could easily be way off though and luckily summer is just around the corner. There is a good chance, that warmer weather will slow down the spread.