The hysterics begin again, before anything is known. So far this time it is mostly rightwingers. Some already blame it on China and say it is intentional! Of course the Democrats will be blamed since Biden is in office. The rightwing nuts already claim it is a Chinese / “Deep State” plan to destroy Americans and lower the population of the world. Pure Madness.
It may eventually turn out to be just a passing bad pneumonia, or one with growing immunity to antibiotics — a serious problem that has been in the making for some time.
I always said that both sides made mistakes dealing with COVID, and that had Hillary Clinton won in 2016 the total deaths and the divisive mania that took hold of our country would probably have been roughly the same as it was under Trump. New never before seen easily contagious viral diseases like COVID are especially scary when they emerge, partly because nobody knows for sure how they will mutate.
But conspiracy theorists and hysterics, and often even more mature types, today tend to overreact when they get frightened. Many seem compelled to frighten themselves and others prematurely, sensing an opportunity to blame in ridiculous partisan ways all the culprits they have been trained to blame — even when we are simply dealing with outbreaks of disease that are essentially “natural” developments and dangers that can spread rapidly in our highly interconnected world.