[jetpilot]

Not sure where the mighty Rush gets his figures, but the last year the CDC has fully compiled stats for the causes of U.S. deaths is 2017. Here is that list, with figures rounded off.

1. Heart disease 647,000
2. Cancer 599,000
3. Accidents 169,000
4. Chronic lower respiratory 160,000
5. Stroke 146,000
6. Alzheimer’s 121,000
7. Diabetes 83,000
8. Flu and pneumonia 56,000
9. Nephritis (kidney disease) 50,000
10. Suicide 47,000

The first Coronavirus death in the US was recorded on Feb. 28th. According to the current administration’s numbers the expected overall total is anywhere from 100,000-240,000. Their worst case scenario is 2.2 million.
Now, I don’t think anyone expects that worst case scenario, and I certainly hope it just ‘miraculously disappears’, and we’ve overreacted. But even if it just falls in the middle of the White House’s projections, it will probably kill more Americans in just six months or so this year than anything other than heart disease and cancer does for a full 12 months.

Virtually every other word is a "what if"