There are two messages in the COVID fight that I find particularly problematic. The first is telling people that in its mildest form it's basically a flu.
While true, I think it lulls people into a false sense of security.

The majority of us have had the flu and had it multiple times. We may even have gotten it from someone we know, and even if there's some variation in the severity of it, people who have had the flu experience it in similar ways.

COVID is nothing at all like that. You can have it and not show symptoms, pass it on to someone and it literally KILLS them. Here today, gone in another week or two. Telling people "it's a mild flu" or "similar to the flu" is at best, risky and at worst, deadly.

The second set of messages that rubs me the wrong way is the almost nonchalant acceptance of the fact that a large number of people will die - by people who can isolate themselves from COVID's worst effects.
Luckily not something we see much here in the Caribbean.

Although when you have people asking for a reopening of the economy and borders, it makes me wonder if they don't realize the potential real costs of doing those things in terms of actual human lives.
Every life lost is one too many.