Wasn't the banned disinformation about how COVID is just the flu or started in a government lab? The article seems to indicate that the virus was actually more

Wasn't the banned disinformation about how COVID is just the flu or started in a government lab? The article seems to indicate that the virus was actually more transmissible and dangerous than officially communicated. Do we really think things would have gone better if they said it was more dangerous? What am I missing?