A lot of comments without any mention of how our public health officials, previously respected, managed to lose the confidence of the public by ends-justifies-the-means reasoning. Also the hypocrisy of many elites regarding social distancing for the masses, an arbitrary, never-justified buffer of six feet, exceptions for essential services like bars, dearth of criticism for certain close quarters protests, etc.

Public health was MIA for most of the epidemic regarding true and actionable information. And you're asking if this is just how the politics has played out? It's not at all nuanced.