“Republicans were COVID lockdown supporters in many cases and they also were COVID vaccine promoters, mask supporters etc. etc.”
You are right, but left out the biggest example, and leader of the Republican party at the time, the POTUS, Donald Trump.
President Trump wanted to take credit for the quick development of the COVID vaccine if that means Mitch McConnell being rendered speechless Trump may yet be able to justify that.
The great sin of Trump spending trillions of dollars on COVID that generated inflation but of course the noise machine says it was all Biden’s fault.