I mean... it can be both.

It is this weird pandemic that isn't really lethal or dangerous enough to make it a no-brainer to completely upend our lives. But it's also not inconsequential, so nobody feels all that comfortable writing off hundreds of thousands of elderly relatives. So there's a lot of moral ambiguity, a lot of genuine uncertainty (will we have a useful vaccine? a month, a year, or ten years from now?), and a lot of people pushing radical political agendas. Some think that capitalism and the profit motive are the real disease. Some think it's China...

I guess another example that real-world scenarios are seldom clear-cut. If it's any consolation, we're doing better than Europe right now. But this winter will be a trial.