1. The reaction to the virus is doing more harm than the virus itself.
There are enormous economic repercussions from the lockdown. The US is estimated to be losing $25 billion in GDP per day. Prolonged financial strain will lead to an economic collapse throwing society into chaos. Jeopardizing far more lives and life quality than the virus.
2. Information about the virus is being distributed in a way that promotes uncertainty and fear.
The news media is distributing information about the virus in a bias manner that sensationalizes it, and spreads fear. That's what sells.
Rather than talking about the numerous existing treatments and their high survivability rate, the wide availability of treatment, the vaccines on the way, they instead focus on the number of infections and death.
The numbers lie. If the numbers were inverted they tell a very different story. For example in HIllsborough County your chance of having a positive diagnosis is less than .006%. For every 1000 people there are maybe 5-8 depending on which numbers you believe. This is after mass media exposure and weeks of testing. I'm certain, most people who have symptoms have been tested.
The death rate is extremely low and indicates very little risk for people who are under the age of 70 and don't have underlying health conditions. If you're 70 and have an underlying health condition you're probably not at work already. However, even if you are over 70 and have an underlying condition you still aren't remotely likely to die from COVID. People are unique and their health risks are unique. Cause of death need to be evaluated case by case.
3. Society can function with the virus as it has with all previous viruses.
The virus isn't going away and neither have viruses from the past. We function in society with things like tuberculosis which resulted in 1.6 million deaths worldwide last year. We function with the flu even though it causes nearly 80 thousands deaths a year in the US alone. We get in our cars and drive to work even though 3500 people a day die in car accidents worldwide. There is inherit risk to living, and we mitigate it.
This is where the constitution works well. Just as someone has the right to participate in society freely, another's right to stay home is equally protected. If you geniuinely fear the virus will kill you, then go shopping when it's not busy, work a job where you're not close to people, remove yourself from situations you think are risky.
4. There is no evidence that indicates you can get sick from the virus more than once.
It's early to tell for sure but the people who tested positive and recovered so far have not gotten diagnosed positive a second time. This is not surprising because the body creates antibodies which stay in your system. In fact, vaccines are RNA/DNA injections that trigger the creation of antibodies. In turn, preventing infection.
5. There are questions around the PCR testing method and whether it can reliably detect the virus.
A Polymase Chain Reaction (PCR) test takes a tiny bit of genetic material by swabbing your mouth or nose, mixes it with another compound to amplify trace amounts of genetic material. They don't tell you how much of a material exists, only if it exists. Some argue if you amplify the material enough you will find just about every genetic material associated with common illness. Therefore nearly everyone with enough amplification could test postive for COVID19.
6. The virus is being attributed to deaths occuring from other causes.
As mentioned earlier in this post. Anyone who tests positive and dies is getting COVID19 put on the death certificate. That doesn't mean they died from COVID19. They may have died from heart failure, cancer, or another disease. Doctors are being told to error on the safe side of attributing deaths with COVID19. In some cases they're telling them to attribute them even if they see only the symptoms but not a positive test. Again, the numbers can be manipulated.
7. There's no statistical data indicating the total number of deaths by all causes has increased. Therefore suggesting the possiblity of deaths being disproportionately attributed to the virus.
If we have a new "killer" virus on the loose it's logical the total number of deaths in the world and the US would be skyrocketing. It's early, but so far there's no indication of that. In fact, there's some indication deaths from other causes are down. Which supports the idea many deaths from other causes are now being attributed to COVID19.
8. There is uncertaintly surrounding the origin of the virus, how long it's been circulating, the name, and symptoms.
We have the whole world on lockdown. The economy has all but stopped. People are going crazy feeling trapped and depressed and scientists can't so much as agree where the virus came from, when, and how it arrived. The prevailing theory is that it came from a horseshoe bat in China. I recommend people do their own investigation from there because there are just too many conspiracies on how and why that happened.