This thing is so politicized all the reports, data ,etc are compromised. (or the corollary- some are accurate, but there is no way to tell which.)
I know of one person who died from covid. Never met him, my sisters husbands father. He was 101 years old, in bad shape. Anything could have pushed him over the edge.
Nobody else I know has contracted it, anecdotal reports from some are they got an unusually bad flu this past winter, but it preceded any covid panic- so no testing. Granted I don't mingle with many people, but still- one would think if this was really so severe, we would all know people who got real sick from it.
Without the internet to fan the fear, I wonder if we would even know about it at all. The reporting reminds me a lot of the climate change and gun control fear mongering. A pretty good test run for social conditioning - we ought to be concerned that in the future people are going to look at us getting out of our cars the same way they look at us now without a mask....this is sort of an extension of how they reduced smoking, and how they go after firearms- partially by law, but mostly by making smokers and gun owners social pariahs. No reason they can't use the same techniques for climate change or whatever else strikes their fancy. Of course, all of the "reasons" are BS, the "reasons" are just excuses to mandate control over people- and how sweet it must be to get people to act as the volunteer enforcers "for their own safety".
What they will say- That gas spewing truck threatens us ALL. Just like your GUN. And not wearing a MASK. Or a bike helmet. Your actions cost us money and make us unsafe!
Dad forecast this trend for me 50 years ago-"son, if they can tell you to wear a seatbelt or a helmet "to lessen the cost to society of hurting yourself", they can tell you to do anything for the good of society- we are all part of society, and anything we do has some effect on the rest".
(And so ya'all don't go off on a tangent about risk, I don't smoke, I wear a helmet and I wear a seatbelt- but NOT because someone tells me to.")