A short time ago governments and media worldwide preached death and impending doom. People screamed stay home as governors pushed, and in many cases violated the constitution. The masses didn't questioned it though, "Its a virus!" they would cry. "Its more important than the constitution!" And if you questioned that you somehow became a right winger, who didn't think the virus was serious.
Fellow citizens called the authorities on each other, acts reminiscent of horrors from the past. They condemned those that didn't think as they did, in their minds questioning government equaled death. Dissenters the bane of their existence
More than 2 months later, data collected and analyzed worldwide, show the theoretical models were massively wrong. Of course they would be, they were theoretical after all, trying to predict a virus with no baseline to work from. US deaths predicted in the Millions dead dropped to hundreds of thousands and again to the tens, while the amount guessed infected went from hundreds of thousands to millions. That data no longer theoretical, now fact, changed the scientific communities view. The lethality of the virus once warned as high as 7% now down to as low as.03, no where near what those models predicted.
Governors, the same ones that cried doom and pushed the constitution, now opens states and communities across the nation. The data, once again fact, showing its the right thing to do. But the masses and media that once condemned those who didn't listen to government are now condemning that same government themselves.
The data they once screamed should rule all, suddenly became irrelevant. The governors they praised for rescinding rights became the enemy for wanting to return them. Fear is a very powerful motivator, often making the mass disregard reason. The media on the other hand is more disappointed they may no longer have a crisis to make money off.