Besides a 1.61% death rate being nothing to sneeze at (and it's probably actually higher than that), you have absolutely no idea how many of those 28.9 million Texans will ultimately contract COVID - nor will you always personally know if you're an asymptomatic carrier, responsible for infecting more of your fellow citizens.
To each their own, but I would not want to take my chances with the actual odds you face in TX today. And I wouldn't take those chances with other people's lives. It's not just about you.
No, it's way lower than that. Deaths are probably undercounted, but nowhere near as much as infections are.
In 1918 August most of the people who died in 1918 from the Spanish Flu were still alive.