This is America. Everything is politicized and both sides are guilty of it. The Democrats certainly exploited Covid but Trump left them with plenty of openings too. I never politicized this though. I was always too busy actually fighting it. I'm an ER nurse in a city that saw a lot of Covid. My county lead the state in Covid deaths for the first 6 months of this thing. I have seen it kill people. and yeah, they were pretty much all over 50, most were over 70. I saw plenty of less than 50 year olds hospitalized with it. I saw plenty of people successfully fight it off without hospitalization. I've just personally seen too much of this virus to ever accept that it's a hoax. I work in a vaccine clinic in fact and have personally vaccinated at least 800 people. I talk to these people. Lots of them had Covid and I'm not so busy that I can't talk to them about their experience with it. They all agreed it sucked and they don't want it again.
Now you say you're an ER nurse and have seen a 'lot' of covid. Ok. How many exactly? and of the deaths that happened, how many were there exactly and how many had underlying issues? And just where are you? Are you in a restrictive state or one that is (was) more open? etc. These are all questions (plus more) that should be asked and answered.
The country's economy was nearly destroyed. Governments exploited the situation in order to grab more power to never relinquish it. And none of it should have happened. And it is still going on! Although, it seems that more and more people are calling b.s.
Yes everything is politicized now and it comes from the left. The left exploits situations even when it causes death. I don't recall the republicans exploiting anything to the point of death.