I'm only posting this because I've seen this type of response to responses many times. While it's good to encourage higher standards of communication and thoughtful response, there's no need to slam a different community and think people on HN are somehow better.
The thing is, it's more likely to be skewed in the wrong direction, the direction that it is safer than you think. So actually its important to understand how bad it is for those who get it. We have consistently had >1k deaths per day in the US and then many others with longterm issues.
Your skepticism here might be based on a logical fallacy that assumes that term has a certain connotation or is even used by the researchers themselves. For all you know the term was just created now by the parent commenter to label a group of individuals in his/her own definition.