The costs of fixating on COVID alone are much more dire. We have become so obsessed and fearful of the virus that we are expending a disproportionate share of our resources on a virus that is less dangerous than the flu for the majority of the population.
The number of fatalities is the primary metric for most people. Contrary to the propaganda, hospitals and ICUs were not overwhelmed. In fact, doctors, nurses, and other staff were laid off during the lockdowns because people did not go to the hospitals for regular screenings or procedures. Even after the lockdowns, people are fearful of going to the doctors or hospital for fear of contracting the virus. Those costs will be enormous down the road.
What has the virus cost our economy? We have spent over a trillion dollars on payments to businesses and individuals. Suicides, drug overdoses, crime, etc. have seen drastic increases. Weddings, funerals, church services, and other functions have been limited or eliminated. People have been prevented from visiting dying loved ones. What kind of society are we becoming as our civil liberties are being taken away in the name of mandates from government drunk on power? People are becoming compliant without much resistance.
Why are you so fixated on COVID alone rather than view it in a much larger context? Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, and other countries have removed all restrictions and returned to normal living. We must accept living with the virus as we have with AIDS. And we must do more on therapeutics rather than thinking we can vaccinate our way out of the pandemic.
You are the one fixated on Covid fatalities to the exclusion of Covid morbidity costs. Contrary to your own ignorant propaganda, many hospitals were overwhelmed this summer with the explosion of Covid Delta variant. I am well aware of several hospitals forced to delay non-Covid related preventive and therapeutic procedures due to the deluge of symptomatic Covid patients who required serious and intensive therapy. Still other hospitals set up one or more field hospitals to manage the intensive Covid patients this summer.
Stop already with your one-horse pony show.