The answer to your question is almost certainly, "yes". Any look at the grocery stores will confirm this. Unfortunately, exactly in which ways we are overreac

The answer to your question is almost certainly, "yes". Any look at the grocery stores will confirm this. Unfortunately, exactly in which ways we are overreacting, is trickier. It is possible for us to be overreacting, but Covid-19 still to be a serious problem. One could also argue that, since we lose 25-60,000 people a year to flu in the U.S. alone, we were underreacting before. If we lost 25,000 people to a new threat, we would consider that appalling. It may be that we are overreacting to this because it's a new threat, but perhaps we were underreacting before? Probably, it is some of both.