You are justified in pointing to the death rate as relatively small.  There are two means of use of a bioweapon:    https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/8/9/01-0536_article Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa   Destruction of society by appealing to baser nature ....   The key struggle goes back to 1581: two systems of government: One in which the protection of a powerful prince/ state is needed (by the grace of God) or one in which self government based on freedom and participation is present .... The price for the latter is virtue, of which logical thinking is one aspect.  Human nature is quite susceptible to fear. Induce fear and the result will be dictatorship, by whatever ideology or system. (absolutism, mercantilism, communism, socialism, some theocratic BS like Islam, anything really but liberty Those who do not recognize the threat emanating from the responses on this virus, mandates and compliance, to the only alternative to tyranny: self government based on liberty, will fall victim to it' s operation.