Originally Posted by mopek1

I think what people mean by fake pandemic is not that the virus isn't real. They mean that the response to the pandemic is disproportionate to its severity.

So it is "fake" in a sense, as in we are reacting as if we are in the midst of the 1918 Spanish Flu - a very serious pandemic - when in fact we are in a much milder version of what pandemic brings to mind and that we should be reacting to it accordingly.