How exactly is Coronavirus more dangerous than flu when in a 4 month period, flu kills an average of 175000 more people?

It's not only about how many... but who.

The flu typically operates *without* social distancing in place.

The flu also has a much lower mortality rate.

Covid 19 has much more potential.

The flu infects hundreds of millions every year.

Corona would be very bad if it infected people on that scale.

I guess it could be a problem of overdiagnosis.

If you decided to test for flu you would have hundreds of thousands of cases of flu. If you decided to hospitalize flu cases with mild symptoms, that would collapse hospitals. Collapsed hospitals would cause a serious public health problem (since they become collapsed for every illness in the book, not just for flu) and that would lead to hysteria panic. And that would be only flu, you know, common seasonal flu.

In Italy, the additional number of deaths during the coronavirus outbreak is several times higher than the number of deaths caused by the coronavirus.
https://www.corriere.it/politica/20_marzo_26/the-real-death-toll-for-covid-19-is-at-least-4-times-the-official-numbers-b5af0edc-6eeb-11ea-925b-a0c3cdbe1130.shtml

Collapsed hospitals kill people, not because of the coronavirus, but because every other illness will increase its mortality if the health system is collapsed.

Check what has happened with Brett Crozier and the USS Theodore Roosevelt. That's not the Diamond Princess with their 70+ years old passengers, this is a ship filled with young people. The expected number of deaths in the USS Theodore Roosevelt was zero. Now you have quite a serious problem when there was none. And now you have a hundred people from the crew occupying places in hospitals that they shouldn't.

However, no politician dares to talk about this big elephant in the room. The media would destroy him, calling him mass murdered or anything like that.

And that brings another very serious problem: could this be the mainstream media new toy? Every year, you have the flu season. You could collapse the health system by publishing constant news about every flu death. That could become a pretty dangerous toy to take down governments.
https://www.thenewneo.com/2020/03/31/i-was-thinking-this-but-he-said-it-better/

Maybe it has a little something to do with the mortality rate? Italy has over a 10% mortality rate with COVID-19. The factors involved are a large elderly population, an overworked treatment system and the lack of an early social isolation mandate. Even with all of our preventative measures in the US we're over a 2% mortality rate.

Coronavirus is more dangerous because it is new. Nobody is immune to it and there is no vaccine or drugs for treatment.

The world-wide confirmed death of COVID-19 is not as high as flu yet, thanks to WHO's repeat updating warnings and the measures each country took to fight this Pandemic. Can you imagine what it would be if every city around the world become epicenters like WuHan and Lombardy? Lockdown not only helps to reduce it's spreading to other cities but also helps to reduce death in the epicenter since the CDC could concentrate its medical resources there to fight the disease.

Flu season is not over yet and COVID-19 adds additional risk to the public health. Let's hope both regular people and the government start taking Flu more seriously for now on, also better preparing for the second wave or next pandemic.

You are correct, it's very much like the flu. The only difference is that there's no vaccine, so the number of people who are infected with corona and die from it could turn out to be higher.

This is either the 3rd or 4th time we've had this conversation.