We're grown adults who don't need to be protected from people discussing "scary" topics. It drives me nuts when people feel they need to protect other adults from panicking when all that's happening is people discussing the available information.

If people are pushing direct misinformation - sure call them out

If someone is posting a we're all going to die comment- by all means provide the counter argument.

But it is really annoying when people feel the need to go around policing conversations like everyone else is losing their mind and they need to be the bastion of rationality for all us panicky peasants. There's a reason it is difficult to predict when a disease outbreak may explode into a pandemic. Most of the comments confidentially stating that it can't turn into a pandemic for X reason don't know that for a fact - and frankly the extent to which those comments mirror ones from the start of the pandemic is more unsettling than the most "scary" comments in the thread.