you aren't even in the same zip code and you are emotionally missing my point. I'm not giving you excuses, they are reasons.
This virus was/is going to be fatal to many people, mainly to the unhealthy and elderly demographic. Mutation is leading cause of mitigation, not masking, not vaccines, even though vaccination certainly helped to reduce mortality. I would even agree that lockdowns mitigated mortality, to some degree. Isolation always works. As a society, we did many things wrong, many. Some for the right reasons, some for the wrong reasons. The right reason was our lack of understanding, treating based on what happened last time or working off of a dated playbook. The wrong reasons were driven by politics.