I don't know quite what you want me to say in return Andy.
During the earlier course of the Covid 19 panic, I heard, either on TV or radio (not sure which) a reporter doing a comparison between Covid and winter flu.
The reporter said something along the lines that no more people had suffered with covid than normally suffer with the winter flu. So, me thinking, why all the panic then. I began reading whatever I could to enlighten myself and the more I read the more I became convinced someone's playing a blinder.
I cannot know who or why, but everyone seems to have readily jumped on the bandwagon to go along for the ride (with the exception of Sweden, who, as far as I know, have kept lock down to a bare minimum but haven't suffered for it.
I only have one other thing to add to this discussion, it's about the numbers and the statistics: We all know numbers and statistics can be made to look like anything anyone wants them to look like, it depends on:-
A, whether that person has an agenda to air,
B, whether the numbers needs assistance in achieving the required result.
And as far as I am concerned too many people are sprouting too many numbers to make any sense at all.
I shall now leave this discussion because no amount of hot air from any of us is going to cure anything.