Has anyone ever thought that maybe this entire thing was a media invention?

Sure, there might be a new cold virus we call COVID-19, but we know from decades of medical research that viruses mutate and change all the time. There are thousands of strains of cold viruses.

When the average age of COVID-related death is in line with life expectancy (or higher) that is a huge red flag that this new virus isn't actually any more deadly to the elderly or vulnerable than all the other nasty things floating around out there, especially in nursing homes and hospitals.

The only difference is that the media (and government) are hyping the hell out of this.

Pneumonia kills 4 million people each year. If the media wanted to, they could scare the living shit out of normies with this statistic. But they won't, because someone will be bound to ask "Why is it a problem now when it wasn't a problem yesterday?"

This is why they had to make this about a 'new' virus, which happens to be a lot like all the other cold viruses out there. I have been reading and I have yet to understand what makes this virus so much more dangerous than all the others, even if it spreads easier.