Maybe that is the case, but they did not flag it, they posted a message with several violent keywords and the post was immediately flagged. It seemed different from normal flagged posts because all of the reply buttons disappeared and as I hit reply on a comment I was in the process of writing, I got the message "You can no longer reply in this post" or something to that effect. I looked at other currently flagged posts and this seemed atypical. You can still reply within the flagged posts comment section. I assumed it was some sort of auto moderation action.
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The reply buttons likely disappeared because it was also made "dead". Looking it up in your profile it shows "[flagged] [dead]". As to why it was made dead, I do not know.
SARS-CoV2 is in the title, that may be enough for being taken down automatically to avoid flamewars.