As we've amply experienced over the last 18 months, a disease can simultaneously be mild (in perceived short-term illness) for most people and kill and incapacitate millions of people. These are not disjoint conditions for a global pandemic, and mild illness in many is not itself a sufficient condition for ignoring the harm done to millions.

And, to be blunt: "I didn't say the word 'Holocaust' when I compared COVID to the efficient cause of the Holocaust" is not a plausible excuse.