stigma attached to the disease is stopping many people from coming forward if they have symptoms colon kroenke received hundreds of death threats softer it was revealed he called the virus. a lot of people are so right about having kobe not because of it's going to harm them but it's because they're worried of what the put the the population around them will think when you shame somebody and when you have this big stigma on people for having called it a lot of people who are sick you know that might have a sniffle or a sore throat or something they don't bother going to get tested because they they feel like they're going to be shamed so or shunned and so a lot of people end up hiding their symptoms and that's an issue because then you're not getting a true number on cases and and you know you have people going around spreading the virus not knowingly the they have the virus because they're too worried about what people might think that they have the virus. he began getting hundreds of death threats a day off the becoming infected in october with people blaming him on social media for the subs