Coronaviruses are included in the common cold group.
A holy grail for pharma research was coming up with a cure for the common cold.
Couldn't happen - the bugs mutate too fast. But with most healthy people, it is nothing but "a cold."
Some years you get one that is nastier than the others, and you get more dead geezers in nursing homes.
But with some people, even a "mild cold" can kill.
We don't know just how much this bug was played with, but we do know that the Chinese were working on weaponizing viruses.
And it appears that some blithering geniuses in Washington outsourced research to China.
We're at less than 1/8th of 1% annually, and that is "with" biased statistics, not "solely because of" statistics.
The media desperately wants to keep believing.
The Chinese want us to trash our economy even more than what has happened.
China appears ready to disappear a bunch more dissidents. Their people discovered capitalism, and discovered that they like it.
Lots of people want to stay home and watch TV.
Other people want to control peoples lives. And still others get off on playing a victim card.
Politicians, from dogcatcher on up, want more power.
Woke folk want to be able to point fingers, and announce that they are smarter.
Come fall, the cold and flu season will start to ramp up, and the spittlescreeching will restart.