I know no one with corona, or anyone that knows anyone that have/had it.
I know that influenza kills a lot more or aligned with corona death numbers.
But sure, be always careful with the flu aka corona propaganda driven disease.
Anecdote: I started playing Minecraft before pandemic thingy, and in the development version they added splash text related to non-existing pandemic (wasn't actually shown to players, only on the data level).
Source:
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Splash#cite_ref-COVID_9-0Version with the splash text added:
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Java_Edition_19w34a19w34a is made on August 22, 2019. According to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic, the outbreak allegedly started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. That's like, 4 months before that.
Now, the question is, how did the people behind Minecraft could possibly know about this? Even if there was some alarming signs of potential outbreak, why did Minecraft choose to pre-add those messages anyway?
Coincidence? Definite conspiracy.
And yeah, those splash messages is the reason why I stopped playing Minecraft... One of those keep telling you:
Stay home and play video games!
No thanks, I'll play games when I want to, not when you tell me to.
I really try to avoid being bombarded with those news related to the virus nowadays. I cannot tell whether those cases are for real or they just learnt to identify the virus which existed long before, and they could just align the data to those death cases. We really don't know. All we know is what they tell us really. The anxiety this causes probably makes more harm to people than the virus itself. Perhaps not in the short term, but definitely in the future. Fear, discrimination, "self"-isolation, freaking idea of social distancing... Just bad.