Please don't break the site guidelines by posting like this.

It usually (not always) happens that fair-minded users come along and give the unfairly downvoted comment a corrective upvote. That happened here. Complaints like this add noise to threads and don't garbage-collect themselves, hence that rule.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

For some reason coronavirus threads attract the downvote brigades. It is a very inflammatory issue.

>Not sure why this is getting downvoted

because people are defensive when their own character flaws are reflected back at them.