The Fatalists.

Hard to believe, but there's people and media companies who insist on comparing the swine flu outbreak with the one in 1918, also dubbed "the Spanish flu." History tells us that nearly 20 million people lost their lives back then, with a flu very similar to today's. They also say that it began in the late spring and then came back in the fall, when it was much more devastating.

Sources and reports are vague. I've seen the numbers from the 1918 flu dance from 20 million to, according to a CNN article I just read, 50 million (they preceded it with the word conservatively.)
Again, people just trying to be alarmist and scare the shit out of others.

Context. Facts.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.
Though the study of antibiotics started in the 1880's, they were not widely used until the late 1930's.

Two medical components that are not only basic factors for treatment but rather common nowadays did not exist back when the Spanish flu attacked.
It would be outrageous to suggest that the world today is as vulnerable as it was 90 years ago. I am not disregarding the fact that this is a serious situation, but in no way we can make this kind of comparison.
Once again, the problem of disinformation is attacking the media.