You might be right. However I was looking at the corona numbers and I noticed while most countries are past the peak for a month or two now, some countries like Brazil, Mexico, and India, covid deaths are still growing exponentially.

But in the end, the mortality rate is about 0.26% instead of the 3.5% everyone thought at the start. Which was a number that came from PCR tests which are a very flawed testing method. Apparently you run it a number of cycles to "amplify" the RNA and then you do the test. If you run it 30 cycles, every test is negative. If you run it 80 cycles, every test is positive. And there's some goldilocks number in between that is supposed to be most reliable for avoiding false positives and false negatives, but there is no consensus on what that number of cycles is.

Even the inventor of the PCR test said it should never be used for diagnosis, only research, because of these issues.

And then the antibody test came out, which is much more reliable, but still quite unreliable, and it's revealing it's 1/10th as bad as we initially thought.

Maybe it was bad science. Maybe it was a hype-driven media. Maybe it was deliberate corruption and propaganda. Maybe it was all 3 in varying proportions.