Its more than that, too. Its people flat-out refusing to accept reality and just blindly believing whatever their television tells them.

Fact: If you do not have a severe, pre-existing medical condition primarily caused by lifestyle (diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity) your risk of dying is quite small. Similarly, unless you are >75 or so, you again have a negligible risk of dying. And, based on hospital admissions data, if you aren't vitamin d deficient you're almost certainly fine - and that is something that's easy for anyone to fix.

Fact: Despite the "We Listen to SCIENCE!" crowd not shutting up about what St Fauci says, this has been politicized to an absurd degree. Take HCQ - it was being used seemingly effectively to treat this, it had been used to treat regular SARS, people had been taking it for years with no issues, and then Trump mentions it, the media goes on a smear campaign and some governors ban prescribing it - when is the last time you ever heard of a governor telling a doctor what legal drug they can or can't prescribe? Even the name of this. I don't give a **** if the "official" name is covid-19. When have you ever heard of a virus being called the scientific name in common culture? Cause in 3 decades, I've never heard it once. Until Trump called it the Chinese Coronavirus or Wuhan Coronavirus or something, and then the media flipped their lid and now everyone just says "Well, that's the official name!"

Fact: The cure is provably worse than the disease. 250k (or whatever it is today) deaths in the US is bad, yes, but its a drop in the bucket. The US has a population north of 330 million, so we're not even close to 1/10th of 1% of the population. Meanwhile, poverty is skyrocketing, I read one that 1/3 young adults are becoming suicidal, drug and alcohol abuse is up, domestic violence is up, people are suffering complications from previously treatable conditions because hospitals are being shuttered, the economy is in freefall, but I guess I just want Grandma to die.

Fact: There is no hard evidence that the lockdowns even work. Worldwide trends are similar in terms of spiking infections (or, at least they were a week or so ago, haven't checked in the last few days). And, in the US, a tight cluster of NE states all of which followed similar harsh lockdown procedures remain the most deadly part of the country for the virus.

Opinion: Past evidence suggests that their vaccine hopes may well kill a lot more people. Remember SARS back in the early 2000s? Well, attempts to make a vaccine for that failed horribly, and in fact vaccine candidates for that made life worse for animals who got infected down the line. Yes, the vaccine candidates for SARS-CoV led to the animals experiencing the cytokine storm phenomenon that's killing people who get SARS-CoV-2. So, while they obviously aren't identical diseases or vaccines, I don't hold out a lot of hope for the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine to have better long-term safety than the SARS-CoV-1 vaccines did. And, yet, we're not going to get any long-term trials on this one until its been injected in tons of people already. (Plus, I have heard - though haven't independently verified - that the vaccine trials are only being conducted on otherwise healthy people who are already highly resistant to the virus, not the people with pre-existing conditions who are at risk.)