The thing that the last seven years have proven is that people no longer remember facts if they don't fit their narrative. I do think that there were mistakes made on both sides of the aisle on COVID but the notion that everything was wrong or some kind of attempt at control is just aluminum foil level of thinking.
Of the people that I know that have died in the past 4 years, more died of COVID than anything else. I know another three people that nearly died from COVID....one took two years to fully recover and another elderly man who never did fully recover although he's still hanging on. I don't know how the third person is doing as we've lost touch. Regardless...it was deadly and needed to be taken seriously. One of my wife's coworkers inadvertently killed her dad because she brought it home from work. He was older and weak and never left the house and COVID took him out. The people living in denial about how dangerous COVID was falls in line with a lot of the other denial that we see these days.
If one didn't have comorbidities, vulnerabilities to Covid: Chances of dying from covid: About .33 of 1%: Ridiculously low.
This was after the beginning of the onset of Covid. For the first 3 to 6 to 9 months of Covid, the mortality rate was higher: About, around about 3 to 5 to 7%, if weren't a person at risk.
In the extreme very beginning the mortality rate for those not at higher risk was about 15 to 23%.
By Year 2,3 the Mortality rate for those not at higher risk, was about .09 of 1% to .17 of 1%.
Mask, Vaccines lowered those Ridiculously low mortality rate chances to die from Covid even more almost impossible to die, low chances, for those not at higher risk, not more vulnerable
Even those that more vulnerable, and at same time never wore mask, never vaccinated, and still went out in public, etc: Ms Cranefield, was one such 70 year old lady, that didn't get Covid until 18 months ago, did not die of, from Covid, and still alive.
Flu Mortality rate: .20 of 1% mortality rate(higher then Covid.