Days ago I would have disagreed with you....but not now. It is different.... I just got a text from a friend who's daughter in law works as a PA in Dallas. Said they are starting to get cases and it's bad. Too close to home for me....
Consider, please: You don't go to the doctor if you don't feel bad, and while that scale slides depending on the individual. If you are really sick, (not 'just a cold' ) you are more likely to seek medical attention.
If you have a mere case of the sniffles, you generally don't go to the doctor, you pick up some remedy at the store or gut it out until you feel better. The mild cases aren't being counted, because they aren't being detected.
In Dallas, there are 1.34 Million people (almost twice as many as we have in our whole state), so sure, the medical centers in that concentrated group of humans, once the infection is introduced to the community, will come in, and it will seem like a lot.
But one hundred cases in the hospital, while it may seem like it would be a lot, is only
0.007 percent of the population. If there were 100 deaths from the virus, in Dallas is still a very small mortality rate because of the size of the population.
What you are seeing there is a very narrow tightly focused view on the absolute worst aspects of this.
It's why ER staff, police, and First Responders have a high burnout rate.