"Thank you, Coronavirus" poem is bullshit

"Thank you, Coronavirus" which has 8000 likes a;and was translated into various languages.  I was made aware of this video because it was passed to me by a friend of a friend.  We have seen people passing on messages and videos without given much thought about the contents.  

 I asked my students to watch the Youtube video, and discuss whether the author is a bullshitter. --They overwhelmingly replied: "the poem is bullshit."  Some of their reasons are 1. she made overly generalized statements; 2. she neglected the suffering of people due to coronavirus, especially loss of life and jobs.  3. she made something positive out of a lot of misery.  4. She spoke from a privileged position.  

The students quoted this passage from "on Bullshit": "[Bullshitter's] eye is not on the facts at all, as the eyes of the honest man and of the liar are, except insofar as they may be pertinent to his interest in getting away with what he says. He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose. . . . "  

Critical thinking and reason asks us to examine our own opinions/beliefs to see if these opinions are right or wrong and if they are good ones to hold. One might agree with Sokol on a personal level, yet it has nothing to do with whether or not she bullshitted in her poem according to what Frankfurt said about bullshit. Very often people take their own personal opinions as what applies to all or most human beings and that makes what they say as "bullshit." Logically, this type of statement is a fallacy called "gross generalization." Reality is not what one can pick and choose to pay attention to. Being positive in one's attitude does not mean that one can ignore the negative impacts of an event on oneself and on others. One must take all facts and all aspects of reality into consideration. One needs to think beyond the narrow confinement of one's personal views.