A fatality rate of 1-3% is actually quite high. This is significantly higher than the seasonal flu[1]. Sure, it's not as deadly as other pandemics, but still - if the numbers are correct, if you contract COVID-19 you are more likely to die to it than you are to get in a car accident sometime in your life and die from that[2].
Sure, but Ebola is way, way worse, and it was all over Africa for awhile a few years back (IRC) and it even got to the US, and hardly a peep of panic about it.
I think we are going to find out in the next year that half the people that were infected were false positives just like many other scares produce. (like HIV)
I think we are going to find out in the next year that half the people that were infected were false positives just like many other scares produce. (like HIV)