What really matters is excess deaths.
https://aspe.hhs.gov/cdc-%E2%80%94-influenza-deaths-request-...
(Table 1, down to 71) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm
We maxed out at 140% between 4/11 and 4/18/2020. One could try correlating that with the lockdowns.
Anyway, I don't buy your reason for pneu & flu being on the same page, flu may be a subtype of pneumonia but there are many causes of pneumonia, and I don't expect flus to blow up into pneu. Then again, I'm just guessing.
Your second link is not official government statement - indeed it was so weird I didn't understand what I was reading at first - it's a letter expressing a person's opinion, not a government position. I don't know it's value.
The table's interesting, but the percentage of expected deaths don't make sense (read: I don't understand them). It may be down to time lag on reporting, but it's a big lag.
Anyway, well done for providing figures!
> Excess deaths are all that really matters. Why not talk about those instead?
Good point, but I don't have them. What my and your posts seem to show is that flu is a heck of a lot less mortal than this covid. Which is the point.