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It's a valid discussion and we should be retrospect about what we could have done better.

However, I can't help but feel those links are cherry picked to support a particular narrative.

For example, Fauci's February statement that it was no worse than the Flu was contradicted at the time by statements coming out of foreign countries where it was determined to be significantly worse than the flu.

And Fauci subsequently admitted he was wrong and that it was much deadlier than the flu.

I think it's safe to say that we didn't "know" much. And much of what we "knew" was wrong. Such as how to treat Severe respiratory distress.

The WHO also warned against travel restrictions, but travel restrictions helped slow the spread into the US and gave us time to obtain samples and start researching.

That also gave us time to learn that treatment for this is different that traditional treatment for Severe Respiratory Distress.

Fauci also reversed his position on masks. Although an astute observer would have noticed that his initial position that masks were dangerous was contradictory to the second part of that initial position that masks needed to be saved for front line workers.

To this day, the most respected US major medical organizations still recommended masks, and many freepers and anti-vaxers are vehemently against them. So what do we "know"?

I know what I think I know. But the only thing I'll say we "know" as a nation is that this was and still is a total mess.

What I know is that for the first time in history, the healthy and able were “quarantined” and kept away from productive work for the sake of the sick. People died of their comorbities _with_ covid. Relatively few people died _of_ covid.

I know a lot “experts” that told me lock-down, mask up, sit down, and shut up did no such thing themselves. They were long on rules and short on following them themselves. Nanzi and her hairdresser. Gavin and friends and their French Bread restaurant: maskless and not distanced. Dr. Birx travelling for Thanksgiving while telling everyone else to stay home. Fredo caught out of Covid quarantine and making a big show of emerging later on. His brother, Governor “Kodos” Cuomo, sending Covid patients into nursing homes while turning away a hospital ship sent by the President.

Those are the ready ones off the top of my head!

Everything you needed to know about the “pandemic”: their lockdown rules were crushing to the People and the economy and a fat, effing joke to them. Lying hypocrites, every one of them. Fauci at the top.

Now we are finding out the numbers overseas were made up. Just like they were here. A lot of us always knew that, though. The parking lot at my hospital was empty. Plenty of Youtube vids showing empty hospitals.

All the vaxxers here fell for it all. Some bragging, being smug about their shots. I have lost 4 people in my circle of friends and family because of those shot.

Danny,
Your post included this:
“To this day, the most respected US major medical organizations still recommended masks, and many freepers and anti-vaxers are vehemently against them. So what do we “know”?”

Who are the “respected ... medical organizations” of whom you speak?
I think they may have been respected in the past. But you perhaps have not been paying attention. (Even though you are a regular poster on FR.)
The mask-thing was a totally sick fraud from the start. And even a blind person could see that.
But I bet social scientists will be drawing conclusions and inferences from the period for several decades.
In fact, I would not be surprised for hard evidence to surface showing that this was a DeepState scam just to study how much people could be sheepled.

The answers were all there for everyone to see with the Diamond Princess cruise ship. We could look at the raw numbers prior to everything being politicized. As soon as I saw that all COVID deaths (around 10-12 people) on the ship were people over the age of 75, I could tell we were being lied to.

COVID has never been a statistical threat to any relatively healthy person under 70. The pandemic was all lies, day in, day out.

It was the most successful scam in human history.