>>12214434The real problem is that Imperial College put out wildly inaccurate projections that they knew were based on a faulty model. Once the public panicked due to politicians accepting the model as valid, it no longer could be questioned because that would mean some politician admitting that they were wrong to trust Imperial, which in turn would put responsibility for the overreaction on them. The average politician would rather see their country's debt double, triple, or more, just to save them from the possibility of not being re-elected.
