Even outside of MAGAworld, many people now seem to believe that states and municipalities overreacted to Covid. In reality, this new scientific paper calculates that hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved if all states had imposed mask and vaccine mandates like those in the most restrictive states. Conversely, there would have been hundreds of thousands of additional deaths if all states had imitated those with the least restrictive policies: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2821581?utm_campaign=articlePDF&utm_medium=articlePDFlink&utm_source=articlePDF&utm_content=jamahealthforum.2024.2006