Imagine if you will, that the Public Health Authorities would've said:

By implementing these experimental measures, we anticipate that 10 million people will die (I believe it will be orders of magnitude higher) from the effects of the lockdowns alone, etc.

Isn't that the same thing as saying we are going to KILL 10 million people?

For that matter just say it's 1 million people. Maybe average Joe's would've taken pause?

I wonder if that may have prevented the Nestea plunge into an empty deep-end?