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@freemo @mcnado
As someone who was actually crippled by the disease, I do think that you underestimate how serious a situation things were in 2020, especially when you say there was overreaction and panic. There were people in the government literally arguing that we should allow the entire population to be infected so that we could move on as quickly as possible, while doctors were screaming at them that there was no evidence that people couldn't have repeated serious infections, and that we didn't know what the long-term consequences would be.

The people who wanted to let the entire population get infected called the doctors "alarmist".

We now have a dozen variants, 10 to 20% of people who got it have serious long-term consequences, and managed to develop a vaccine to prevents those consequences within months. If it had been taken more seriously until the vaccine was out, as the "alarmist" doctors wanted us to, we would not be where we are now.