Over 200,000 with covid on their death certificate in the uk alone.
It was a pretty big deal. Without the vaccination roll-out it would have been far, far worse.
Uk health services struggled badly in both the first and second waves. Nosocomial infection was a big problem at several points- and I know this, I'm not guessing.
While I may have some issues with how travel restrictions and lockdown were implemented, I can understand why that decision was taken at the time.
As for the modelling- there were wildly different estimates early on(Feb 2020), and some of those were absolutely terrifying. No-one really knew what would happen as evidence wasn't in.
I'm sure there were people shot to death with covid on their certificates...I wonder how many actually died fully of just Covid.
And I can provide a wildly optimistic/pessimistic view to my board on something but I will be held accountable. But people were able to provide ridiculous and laughable claims that shaped society and just shrug their shoulders and be like yeah....not even a sorry!
Was that a warning for what was about to follow?
Although I somewhat agree as to the hysteria and accountability, some of my extended relatives made millions from the pandemic - laughing all the way to the bank with money from the government providing about 1/10th the value in services if that (I'm fairly sure some of the abandoned poor quality PPE found in a field was from their company).
A lot of the "wildly inaccurate" modelling was doing the best with the information available, especially in the early days when governments and those running large organisations/institutions were doing everything they could not to take it seriously.
Lots of people made a fortune and again no accountability for the money. But the government's stoked this behaviour.
Basically most of the powers that be threw society under the bus whilst people got rich and lived their lives. And again no accountability. Then on top of restricting freedoms and choice they then tried as hard as possible to get people to take medical solutions. And not with tried and tested methods but with experimental procedures (not that I am against mrna in the future btw) that had never been tried on such a scale before.
I'm sorry but it was abusive and stupid, but people showed themselves to be willingly treated like cattle.
For myself I'm quite happy at having travelled the world cheaply, made a fortune of the whole irrationality and laugh at the claims that everyone died. I still know no one that died from this from my entire extended family/friends and professional network.
I do know people that suffered from the vaccination however. There was even a trader in nearby company that dropped dead with myocarditis after getting his shots.
Tbh it's a circular discussion, some are too far down the rabbit hole on both sides whether it's some 5g **** or rabidly still checking stats and wearing masks. There is a cohort in middle that regretted it and would have done it differently who are close to those that say the ends justified the means and that it was a symptom of times.
All I know is that in 10 years time when everything is fully tracked beyond our wildest dreams people will look back to this point as to when people accepted and welcomed greater control in their lives.