“…what they did duringCovid…”
The “they” you speak of was mostly Trump and his administration. It’s important to not forget that.
Trump shut down the government. Trump spent a trillion on the first stimulus. Trump led the vax charge.
It’s OK to despise the Biden administration. But don’t give Trump credit where there is little credit-worthy there.
When you are being told by all the “smartest minds” in science that if you don’t listen to them your constituents will all die, I get why he would choose to play the middle road (begrudgingly follow their advice while publicly questioning it).
Even if he fired everyone who gave him bad advice, the same number of people would have ended up died (or maybe even fewer) but every single death would be placed squarely at HIS feet because he didn’t “follow the science”. They tried to create this narrative anyway but nobody really believed it. If the entire medical industrial complex came out with one voice and said he was doing everything wrong, people would have believed it and he would have swung for it.
I agree here, but Trump was expected to do what his medical "experts" told him needed to be done.
Had this been the 1918 flu all over again, the measures would have been justified. But it wasn't, and eventually we all realized this.