What part of it is hysteria and panic? Over 600k people died in the US alone.
The media does its very best to blow everything out of proportion for ratings. COVID is no exception. What a win for big pharma. 640,000,000 doses of a drug they can't be sued for. It's absolutely fantastic for them.
Now look at who they bribe.
It's been an incredibly good couple of years for our oligarchy.
You had no idea about the preventable medical errors killing 400K people a year did you?
You can see effectiveness of response based on various states and regions that responded differently.
https://www.covidchartsquiz.com/
Nope, the restrictions really didn’t do anything at all.
Just two basic things the charts don't consider:
1. If people followed mask mandates in states (e.g. Alabama vs Florida)
2. Population density and disease spread models (e.g. comparing Montana and Idaho felt like a reach, California vs Nevada doesn't consider spread in major cities vs how many major cities there are in each)
We absolutely should study this later, but some of these restrictions were little to no cost. Let's not lump them all together. Wearing a mask indoors vs if your kid can go to school or not are two very different value equations that may merit different answers of "if a restriction is worth it"