Yeah, I thought the people calling it a hoax were nuts. Then I saw thousands of Democrats marching in the streets, many not wearing masks, none social distancing, while their leaders cheered...right after calling the handful conservatives protesting the covid restictions "domestic terrorists".

The threat was definitely exaggerated. Whether it's intentional or not I'm unsure. I suspect the idiots in state government saw a high ~20-30% fatality rate from hospital admissions of covid, didn't realize that that suffered from a selection bias, misapplied it to the entire population and freaked out. But it's been months and better data is available. By now they have to know Covid isn't a serious concern. I'm seeing estimates making it little worse than the regular flu.

Everyone's now freaking out about the "rising covid case count", while they ignore the flat death rate. Yes, cases are rising in part because we're testing more and in part because idiot Democrats are ignoring the orders of their own Democrat leaders, but fatalities aren't rising in proportion. That's because it's nowhere near as deadly as originally reported.