The people who are dying are for the most part people who would have died anyways of the flu or some other opportunistic infection. There are the proverbial exceptions that prove the rule. This is not like the disease epidemics that wiped out whole Native American communities upon first contact. Everyone wishes covid were not around, but it is not catastrophic. People have compared it to the Black Death and the Spanish flu of 1918, events of a totally different scale. There is a lot of paranoia and exaggeration by people with a vested interest in fearmongering, as with Y2K.