The issue isn't that the government were scamming people, but that when scientists predict the outcome of an epidemic, they have a large margin of error.
The media focus on the alarmist, worse case scenario, to sell rectangular objects made of paper with words on them, or time in-between programs for companies to compel the viewer to buy a product.
Then when it all blows over, the media then feast on the host organism and blame the scientists for their own mistakes.
The cunts.