Do you also get annoyed when something not actually cold is called cool? Or if someone doesn't actually get to a task "in a minute"?
If literally everyone in CA was actually sick, that would have a bigger impact than late-2020 COVID. I'd prefer if language wasn't catered to the type of person who doesn't recognize the post title is an exaggeration to convey seriousness.
I'm going to 2nd the other guy - flooding the zone with shit is already something I see often in various lemmy communities. If you think commenters will read articles and actually present proof if something's wrong, you have a much higher expectation from the people here than they're actually capable of. People barely/never read the actual articles. They look at the title and the vote counts and comment/vote/think accordingly.
MBFC is at least an easy way to remove the obvious bad stuff. Yea, it's not perfect, but it's a thousand times better than expecting the community to self-moderate legitimate sources.