You probably have friends who are still getting together for poker nights because they don’t think the coronavirus pandemic is really the once-in-a-century threat to human life and health that it’s being treated as. Maybe you, yourself, think that the current shutdown of the economy is a gross overreaction — or perhaps something more sinister.

After all, more people die of the flu every year in the United States than have died of the coronavirus this year — as of this writing, the U.S. coronavirus death toll is 6,803, about one-fifth of the death total of the flu last year.