Two things:
First, I am not blowing them off, I am saying out of a population of 340m people, only half a million died. It is sad but I mean come on its not horrible, like if we were to invade Japan at the end of WW2
Second, COVID-19 survival rates are 99.997% for people ages 0 to 19, 99.98% for people ages 20 to 49, 99.5% for people ages 50 to 69, and 94.6% for people over 70.
So yeah, there it is