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The death rate is less than 0,5%, even the CDC admits that.

The CDC did no such thing. What they did was publish a pandemic planning scenario, which a lot of scientifically illiterate bloggers have jumped on as evidence that Covid-19 is less deadly than the actual numbers show. I think they made a mistake publishing that scenario, since it so immediately was misinterpreted and misused to spread a false and dangerous narrative.

For 50% of people that get this it is it even a cold, they are asymptomatic For most of the rest of people not is the sniffles.

For most people who get this, the symptoms are mild. But it is fatal for enough people to make it a truly concerning virus. Most people who get it are not, in fact, asymptomatic; while the narrative that some ridiculously high number of people have already had Covid-19 in contradiction to everything known about the dynamics and mechanics of infectious disease transmission is incredibly popular, it is not based on evidence. The evidence is that MAYBE 25% of those who test positive never develop recognized symptoms. This does not mean they do not develop symptoms, only that they may have atypical symptoms that they dismiss since they aren't cold or flu symptoms. And those who are asymptomatic when tested are a minority of patients, 8% in one Chinese study.

This virus is here to stay it is in the community and there is no eradicating it. it will become endemic like all the other viral illnesses we live with. Airs time to get in with life.

There is no evidence that we have reached that point. We are still in the window where public health measures can contain it. My big fear is that enough people buy into the false narratives that they completely undermine public health efforts to eradicate it, and it *does* end up endemic in the population. If it reaches that point, then we can never go back to life as normal.