Isn't this also the case with the normal flu? 30,000-60,000 people die from the flu in the US every year. That averages out to 2,500-5,000 a month.
It's right there in the headline. We are approaching a breaking point where more people will be dying not because we don't know how to save them, but because there are not enough health workers to attend to them.
Wearing a mask and leaving home only when absolutely necessary is a simple thing we can all do to help save lives.
What's messed up about this whole "crisis" is it's being framed as an individual choice to wear a mask. People make it sound like wearing a mask protects you somehow. And that's simply not true. I think in all this "individual freedom" sabre rattling someone is forgetting that you do not have the freedom to harm someone else. And your choice to not wear a mask is a choice to harm the people around you.
So really choosing not to wear a mask is more like choosing to drive drunk, and you won't ever know how many people you kill.
In context... Approximately 655k Americans die of heart disease each year[0], which comes out to about 1.8k per day. Approximately 600k Americans die of cancer each year[0], which comes out to about 1.6k per day.
[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
COVID eclipsed that within a couple months. By year's end it'll very likely have killed 10× that lower bound. And like others said: COVID's killing the same number of Americans per day that the flu kills in a whole month.
The people who insist "it's just the flu" evidently need to brush up on elementary school arithmetic.