I don’t think many think its all a hoax, there is a virus, and like flu it kills people.
What has always been the bone of contention, is the statistics, and the consistency of the approach to those statistics, and the truthfulness of how this shit all came to pass in the first place.
If we are to judge the scale of the pandemic, you have to speak in broad terms, and simply most statistics support a relatively low death rate as a whole, which decreases the younger/healthier you are, and what society you live in.
The usual pandemic curve is pretty evident, and if you removed all and any lockdown measures, you would see that curve do the same thing over a longer term as any other virus. But you can’t present reliable data with unreliable and/or inconsistent samples.
As a novel virus, it is bound to attack the weak faster (old/ill), therefore you would expect a steep curver of deaths and infections. Then as the immune systems we’re built with start making micemeat of it (see all of the asymptomatic nippers) society will naturally deal with it.
The severity is biased because of how it is reported. The impact is as a result of a new virus in town.
The impact of reacting to it in the way we have is arguably more damaging than the virus itself, and the you can find out for yourself why that is by watching who benefits from all of this.
In the meantime, a vaccine either buys the fucked up health system time, or it’s a gamble. But it all boils down to the society we live in. I bet the plague victims would gladly swap with us right now.