They don't need the virus to actually be more dangerous. They just need the perception that it is... hence the news talking about new variants ( https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/coronavirus-variants-risk-canada-covid-19-1.5982323 ) which are supposedly more dangerous, more transmissible, longer-lasting, and causing younger people to land in the hospital. Whether it's actually happening or not doesn't really matter as long as people watch the news and believe what they're saying.

They don't need the virus to actually be more dangerous. They just need the perception that it is... hence the news talking about new variants which are supposedly more dangerous, more transmissible, longer-lasting, and causing younger people to land in the hospital. Whether it's actually happening or not doesn't really matter as long as people watch the news and believe what they're saying.