In real pandemics:
Professional medical licenses are not threatened.
Finding cures is encouraged and celebrated, not discouraged and silenced.
Drugs that are proven to help are not banned.
People making the curative drug are not murdered and their manufacturing plant burned down.
Recommendations for public health support the natural immune response, they don't suppress it.
Public information is designed to keep the public calm and support the containment of a pandemic with facts, not fear.
Mortality determines the pandemics impact, not cases.
Monetary incentives are not given to medical facilities to encourage the diagnosis of the disease.
I know I worked as a critical care/ER RN for 50 years and we prepared for pandemics.