The sentiment could have been worded better, but the principle cuts both ways, and you could opt to (charitably) read it as a sincere, well-intentioned challenge to the assumptions that govern how we respond to risks. "Terrified" was definitely not the best word; bad word choices happen!

These COVID threads are almost always garbage, but we can't make them better by throttling people for writing snarkily; if there's something of value to take from a comment on these threads, everyone will have to do the work of mining it out.