People getting numbers wrong is normal and should always be expected. We're seeing a shocking amount of that when it comes to Covid.
Here's the thing, I understand people wanting the virus to be less deadly than it is. First of all, that would mean that we could expect fewer deaths; but, beyond that, people want our liberty back, we want to go back to our restaurants and to the movies. We want to go on dates. We're tired of being told that we have to go from a well-paying, fulfilling job that was deemed non-essential to menial work that was deemed essential. We're tired of this shit.
Yes, when people claim that this is just the flu and people correct them, there's push back. I haven't seen hysterics.
I don't understand the people who are seemingly intentionally exaggerating how deadly this thing is. Do you want to believe that more people are going to die?
Just being slightly off is fine and understandable. But, I've seen a person claiming that ending the lockdowns would result in 6.5 million Americans dead. She arrived at that number by assuming that literally every American citizen would be infected and that an IFR of 2% would hold steady regardless of age. Those are assumptions so absurd that a part of you has to want this to be the apocalypse.
This is happening a lot. These people aren't few and far between enough. I don't know if this is some kind of weird fetish. Maybe it's because it's a way for rich white people who haven't lost anything due to the lockdowns to virtue signal while sitting on their asses. Maybe they see this as an excuse to try to implement permanent economic fascism. I don't know. Why the hell else would you want to believe that this is worse than it is?