What if an even larger number of people fail to assess the ramifications of everyone freaking out over small things? We have very little to fear in this world besides other people's fear. Its pretty much the only sustained threat. With the few other things that can cause calamity like hurricanes. You are very statistically lucky if something like that is what does you in. It comes and goes and if it gets you then it does. But mass panic can ruin things for everyone for a very long time. We could go into a dark ages if people freak out enough and up end civilization to respond to their fears. Like locking things down and trying to cancel your economy. That's a very very dumb thing to do to address a temporary problem. I've learned this in life for becoming relatively old. Never address a temporary risk with a solution that could have a permanent consequence. If you adopt that pattern eventually you will catch a few permanent consequences and you'll regret it. For example, lets say you risk becoming homeless and think that robing a gas station is a solution. That would be very dumb. If you do become homeless, it is temporary. But getting a criminal record is permanent. If your prospects in life are bad now such that you can't afford rent in a random month, imagine what it will be like with that over your head. Never solve a temporary problem with potential permanent risk no matter how bad it seems. I don't care if 50% of the population died from corona virus. If the solution has even a 3% chance of inadvertently ending civilization it's not worth it.