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I'm not insulted on anyone's behalf. You're trying to make perfectly harmless writing taboo. My own perfectly harmless writing will be next.

The article example is about Umberto Eco. He's dead. Corona didn't kill him. Get over it.

OP is just politely asking the author to be considerate of the current situation in Italy. There’s no need to be overly sensitive.

Are you trolling me?

I’m saying that OP’s comment was reasonable and polite, yet you seem to be taking it personally for some reason.

The issue they brought up has to do with an entirely superficial part of the article. This is a vanishingly small hill to die on.

Then why are you dying on it?

I'm not; I'm dying on the hill of "someone made a respectful comment to the author so let's not act like they've done something horribly wrong".