This is a great article if you want to concentrate on fact vs hysteria

Here’s how the media is misreporting COVID-19’s death toll in America

The CDC estimated that about 177,000 Americans died during the 2017-2018 flu season, from either the flu itself or by complications of pneumonia. (The CDC never made a public announcement about this number, but you can count it yourself from data on its site, as I did in the chart below.) That was a bad year, noted at the time, but mostly by medical professionals. Those with good memories will recall seeing more “Wash Your Hands” and “Cough Into Your Elbows” posters.

Still, nobody remembers a panic. Just as nobody remembers mask mandates or political leaders shutting down small businesses and locking the healthy in their homes. Because, of course, none of that happened. (This lack of panics during past pandemics is detailed in our book, “The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic into a Catastrophe.”)

Given we have no real tangible or empirical evidence that our over the top reaction to this virus has helped us considerably, it's probably fair to say that we (as a country) have been manipulated by certain people who have made this into a more catastrophic event than it had to be.

Originally there was a time when the whole world expected the Covid virus to quite literally be about ten times worse than it has turned out. Original models for US deaths ran into the millions and many medical professionals warned that the death rate upwards of five percent was quite possibly in the cards. 

So when we were actually looking at something that killed one in twenty that caught the disease, it seems rather prudent to panic a little. But we seem to have continued, if not increased the panic rate, even as it became evident that original estimates were wildly overstated. 

It turns out that our Covid death are currently running about 13% ahead of what the 2017-2018 flu season accounted for. Moreover, the average death rate is equal to or below the flu for pretty much every age group under fifty-five years of age. The virus only gets noticeably more deadly when you get into those sixty-five and above and escalating dramatically for those over seventy-five. 

Think about all of the sports games that have been cancelled over Covid outbreaks. Think about all of the political figures over just the past few weeks that have tested positive. How many of those sports figures have died? Not one so far has been reported by either a professional or college sports team. How many of those elderly unhealthy political figures went down to Covid? Other than Herman Cain (who was in his 70s with a history of medical issues), I cannot think of anyone else who passed, in spite of widespread panic over those who tested positive.

Recently, the idea has been floated by a CNN legal analyst that not following all safety precautions should be considered some sort of criminal action, as in attempted murder. But the problem with this is that your actions have to be actually tied to a very real threat of death... which like it or not simply doesn't' exist here. A positive test in and of itself has become almost meaningless from a health standpoint for a vast majority of the public. 

So why the panic over people testing positive for a virus that for most people is less serious than catching the flu? Unless someone can provide me with a detailed logical explanation for this, I will continue to simply believe that most of the liberals in this country are either gaslighted or attempting to be in on the gaslighting themselves. Maybe they are being fooled, or maybe they know better, but choose to act fooled anyways.