Once again, you are wrong. There are plenty of articles acknowledging that the flu is more prevalent and has killed more people. This is followed by scientists and medical professionals explaining why there is more concern about COVID-19:

-We have vaccines for the flu and medications that can ameliorate the symptoms of the flu. We do not have these for COVID-19. A vaccine is probably 18 months away. 

-COVID-19 is a novel Coronavirus, so the population does not have individuals with immunity that would decrease the rate of infection, unlike the flu. 

-We know that the virus spreads through droplets like the flu, but it’s unclear if the virus is airborne. 

-The current mortality rate is higher than the flu, and if it holds, it’ll be more like the Spanish Flu pandemic than a really bad flu season.

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Middle of the desert? There might be some in the desert, but most are located near city centers and suburbs. 

And there are dorms in many of these facilities. That’s the entire point. But how about start with not putting the kids in “chain link enclosures”. 

We're talking about the point at which they are detained, right?  What do you suggest for these facilities?  According to the link you provided, there are already 10,000 children in the system.  A percentage of which were unaccompanied when they got here.  

Like I said, those trying to get in legally are the one's I feel for.  How do we know which people trying to get in are just regular folks?  Should we bother to check to see if they're already criminals?  How should regular families who chose to break the law be detained?  

Most people who get in trouble in the US spend some time on uncomfortable benches and/or concrete floors.  So, you don't want kids to have to deal with that which is understandable but you also don't want to separate them from their adults.  Should anyone from somewhere else get better treatment than other potential law breakers?

I'm thinking the C-virus is more akin to the Swine flu of about a decade ago. I remember the media attention, rightfully so, it would kill thousands in the U.S.

I'm actually fairly confident that the CDC is farther ahead of this virus.

A strange anomaly with the C-virus is that young children seem to fight it off easily, unlike most other virus'.

1) Cutting and pasting from Wikipedia is against the rules last I checked. 

2) Whether people died directly from influenza or from bacterial pneumonia that followed the influenza, a pandemic of this nature is going to tax hospitals and medical supplies. We are in the same situation of having no vaccines and no medications. And if we are going to rely on antibiotics to treat secondary infections, antibiotic resistance is going to be a major issue. 

But no one said that.  To compare modern day medicine and facilities to those of the early 1900's doesn't seem equitable though, does it?  Many(most?) of the Spanish flu related deaths were due to the overcrowding primitive medical technology so no, I would not agree that we are in the same situation.  The vaccine for polio was still almost 50 years away at that point.