I never denied the exitance of the virus nor I deny the need of calling it pandemic at this point. I just think it's too hyped. When/if the virus kills millions like some predict, I'll change my mind. If it disappears in a month or two, killing thousands, imo it's no different than a common virus because each year it kills thousands of people. If, for example, at the end of the year it kills more than 10k people in France, I'll say it's deadlier. I talked to some doctor recently and he stated that the seasonal flu has 2% death rate and laughed when I said it's 0.2. Then I talked with another doctor (younger) and he said it's kind of impossible to say how many dies of a seasonal flu while also stated how we'll know more about corona in a year time, too early for any kind of details about the virus itself and the death rate.
I honestly think he was joking about that part, since he said "women should go there (to Italy) because discounts will be huge since nobody will want to go there, you should only prepare your husbands mentally for it".