Just because coronavirus won’t be the next Spanish Flu doesn’t mean it can’t kill a lot of people due to preventable failures in global public health infrastructure. It’s I understandable for people to be worried about the significant number of people with immunocompromisation or comorbidities. There’s a difference between blatant fear-mongering and listening to actual epidemiologists, most of whom are genuinely concerned that #COVID-19 could become a pandemic.
It’s annoying to see the same people who dunk on climate change deniers for ignoring climate scientists totally disregard a ton of infections disease specialists and go “lol it’s not that bad no reason to worry at all.”
I doubt it’ll kill 500,000,000 people but it’s still not something to just ignore.