The World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and State and County public health agencies are not media organizations.
What's more important than how ill an individual adult with no underlying health conditions may or may not feel is that we're approaching a tipping point. The pandemic may still be contained and quickly forgotten, or it may become an ongoing, perpetually circulating disease. Those are the options in front of us. There's an enormous amount of future morbidity and mortality, lost productivity, and economic disruption at stake.
2% mortality turns into a very, very large number of deaths relatively quickly. And if those deaths are clustered among children, the elderly, and those with health problems, that doesn't warrant dismissing or ignoring it.