That’s a fair point, and I’m very sorry you and others had that experience.
However, my puzzlement over the way people reacted to Covid was not directed at the 3-5 percent who got really ill from it - I was talking about the 96-97% who experienced cold like symptoms and yet allowed their lives to be turned upside down.
I got are really sick, then of course, take the necessary precautions and treatments.
In my opinion, the whole world went mad and brainlessly complied with draconian one-size-fits-all measures that were completely inappropriate for the vast majority of people.
No different than forcing everybody to use the wrong pronouns to appease some tiny fraction of the population suffering from gender dysphoria.
Or forcing flood regions to ration water because people in Southern California are worried about it.
But some of this overreaction was triggered by the information coming out of China. We now know that China was deliberately hyping how deadly this virus was in order to justify themselves in clearing the streets of Hong Kong of protestors.
We were constantly seeing videos from China of people falling down in the street. Images of body-bags everywhere laying on the ground and stacked in ambulances up to the ceiling.
China was spraying down the streets with disinfectant, people were wearing disposable booties on their feet to prevent tracking the virus into their homes on their shoes.
You may not have seen these videos or heard this news, but what *I* saw was frightening.
I now believe it was all deliberately fabricated to trigger a panic and to allow them to take total control of the streets of Hong Kong. (Where massive protests had been going on daily for over a year, and thereby humiliating the Chinese communist leadership.)
China faked us out, and many of our officials fell for it just as I did at the time.