What do you mean, the epidemic is ruthless?

Although the epidemic in COVID-19 is cold and cruel, people help and encourage each other under the epidemic, which makes this cold epidemic more humane. This sentence comes from the early days of the 20021COVID-19 epidemic, when the people of the whole country were united as one, and all regions helped each other, sticking to the front line of epidemic prevention and control. Although the epidemic in COVID-19 was cold and cruel, people helped and encouraged each other under the epidemic, which made the cold epidemic more humane.