The Madness of Crowds. Hysteria in the Age of the Internet. Or like some guy (and I wish I knew who) once said,
"occasionally, entire societies go batshit crazy".
^^ That is the charitable view. aka accidental hysteria. The other one is we are being played deliberately.
We are treating a hangnail with a chainsaw, destroying lives and jobs and social structures and most likely all our civil liberties,
enabling and cheering on vast government expansions of power, for a virus. A virus with a minuscule mortality rate.
Our ancestors survived polio, smallpox, scarlet fever and a host of other ills without antibiotics or anesthesia, and I suspect would be sickened to their core over how a bunch moderns willingly give up the country they built with their efforts.
"A Republic, if you can keep it."