How so exactly?
Now you say you're an ER nurse and have seen a 'lot' of covid. Ok. How many exactly?
More than I can count. It was constant, one after another. You always had at least one patient with it and hopefully not two because even one was a lot work. You had to work in a two person team-one person in the room and one person outside and we had staff members getting it. Two of them ended up admitted for it. The hospital was very hush hush about the deaths. I saw several personally but there were scores. I was talking to an ICU nurse that told me all of her Covid patients died back in January. My wife is [plugged into the HC system at another local (larger) hospital and we talked of course and it was the same story there.
And just where are you?
Ohio.
Are you in a restrictive state or one that is (was) more open? etc.
Ohio was probably somewhere in between the extremes. the buffets were closed for a while. That was pretty rough.
I don't recall the republicans exploiting anything to the point of death.
Politics has gotten a lot uglier latley.
It is IRRATIONAL to mandate the above actions before even knowing what it was that we were dealing with. And forget about those Doctors and scientists questioning the reaction or suggesting other methods of dealing with it, they were summarily dismissed and punished.
We've had other viruses in this country and never was there a reaction like this most recent one. One exception could be the spanish flu but that was before advances in medical science.
Now the playbook on how to control us has been written and publish. Expect more of the same everytime someone sneezes. It's evil but it sure showed what a nation of sheep America has become.