Yes it’s true the media has an incentive to play up threats, but does that mean there are no threats, or that all the threats they report can be discounted?

Mutated virus strains that are dramatically more virulent and possibly more deadly are scary. This is the virus evolving to better target its host. There’s nothing irrational about being concerned by that.

It’s true fewer people are dying right now, but it’s still thousands of people per day in the US and still hundreds a day here in the UK. Those are not good numbers. I’d love to know how the relatives of those thousands of people who died today would react to you saying they were not at significant risk.

If some of the current vaccines offer reduced protection against some of the new strains that’s a big deal that people need to be informed about.