I have no problem with that. You're free to believe anything you want.
Me, I have little or no reason to believe anything this government or media say...They've repeatedly proved what they're all about and none of it's good.
Apart from their obvious marxist slant, something like this, from media all over the globe, would not be easily dismissed due to ideological foundations, IMO.
The balloon would have gone up across the world about the virulence, communicability and deadliness of this strain due to their primary instincts that haven't been censored as of yet by all governments all over the world.
If the toll was that numerous and the outlook that dire, no ideology could trump the real facts (at this point in time, the future is not a given, yet).
If airborne, we would have a spreading virus in every corner of the world by now and panic would be ensuing to levels never seen before in modern times.
Use your freaking brain! Don't let yourself be ruled by emotions like a liberal!