Indeed, there were a lot of scaremongering about covid. It then turned into the worst global pandemic in a century which killed millions and millions of people,

Indeed, there were a lot of scaremongering about covid. It then turned into the worst global pandemic in a century which killed millions and millions of people, and hundreds of millions of people (if not billions) was afflicted with it, many of them with symptoms that affect them for years. I'm not entirely sure what point you are trying to make.