You are entirely correct in what you say, and if this was just a virus that most people get sick then recover from, then I'd agree with the point you are making. But there are reports of lingering after-affects that suggest that many people may take years, if ever, to recover from Covid-19:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-dama...

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2020/07/06/months-after-infect...

So I think for that reason, maybe we should indeed have a "The world is ending" dialogue...