“It’s not a hoax, but it’s exaggerated beyond belief.”
The hoax is not that the virus is here, The hoax is in the way it is being portrayed as a potential Armageddon.
This will all be clear enough in the not to distant future.
I agree completely, but if it shuts down the entire economy, causes us to go into a depression (which is likely), well, you know who benefits, the first hint is, it isn’t the American people.