The biggest con of the whole pandemic happened at the very beginning: the immediate shift from reporting Infection Fatality Rate to Case Fatality Rate. For most of recorded epidemic history, health authorities, governments, and media reported the IFR, which is based on the projected number of total infections. Because they correctly understood that the vast majority of cases in any covid-level epidemic go unreported.
For covid, everyone spontaneously switched to CFR - based on official cases - which generates a much higher and highly inaccurate fatality rate. Because official cases are also the most severe. Usually, the difference in fatality rates is 10x. So the “fatality rate” for covid went from 00.2% to 2%. Of course people got scared. 1 in 50 is a legitimately concerning number when half the people you know are testing positive (via rigged PCR tests).
The biggest con of the whole pandemic happened at the very beginning: the immediate shift from reporting Infection Fatality Rate to Case Fatality Rate. For most of recorded epidemic history, health authorities, governments, and media reported the IFR, which is based on the projected number of total infections. Because they correctly understood that the vast majority of cases in any covid-level epidemic go unreported.
For covid, everyone spontaneously switched to CFR - based on official cases - which generates a much higher and highly inaccurate fatality rate. Because official cases are also the most severe. Usually, the difference in fatality rates is 10x. So the “fatality rate” for covid went from 00.2% to 2%. Of course people got scared. 1 in 50 is a legitimately concerning number when half the people you know are testing positive (via rigged PCR tests).