Masks reduce risk of transmission when worn properly. Lockdowns and social distancing measures reduce risk of transmission. These saved lives until effective vaccines could be introduced, which further saved lives by the severity of the virus. These are indisputable facts. They are why AZ has the highest overall Covid death rate of any state and about twice that of CA, which is 41st. If CA had followed AZ's stupid policies, that would have been another 100,000 Covid deaths at least, and probably more given CA's much higher urban densities. Even NY, which had to deal with the worst of the virus before any effective prevention and treatment existed, now has only the 15th highest overall Covid death rate, which is further proof that the combination of masks, social distancing and vaccines helped tremendously.
Now that it would be embarrassing for the anti-vax/mask/social distancing idiots to AZ, NY and CA as proof of anything they support, they're pointing to China's increased problems. But China's increasing death rate is primarily the result of low vaccination rates combined with the fact that their vaccines are not nearly as effective as ours. China is proof only that mask and social distancing were important to save lives before a vaccine existed, but unsustainable for a society over the long term. More importantly, the anti-vax/mask/social distancing nut jobs also fail to acknowledge that China's overall Covid-19 death rate so far is 4 people per million, but AZ's death rate is 4421 per million. Think about that. If there were ever any definitive proof that masks and social distancing work, it is this. If there were ever any evidence that the US vaccines work, it is that US death rates have dropped significantly, but China's are increasing. The painfully obvious truth is that so many people died in the US only because of the behavior of the anti-mask/vax/social distancing nutjobs. There is a death rate that is higher than China's, but far less than AZ's 4,420 per million, that could have happened if only there were just fewer stupid, selfish American nutters.
Speaking of crush, it's no surprise he blames the Bills' player's cardiac arrest on the vaccine. He also blamed the vaccine for Christian Eriksen but, oops, it turned out Eriksen wasn't vaccinated. By crush's "logic", Eriksen's heart attack must prove that being unvaccinated causes cardiac arrest, right? Or did Hank Gathers get the Covid vaccine back in 1990? I think crush also tried to blame the Stanford goalie's death on being depressed due to Covid but, oops, wrong again. It must be hard to be anti-vax/mask/social distance when it means they agree with perhaps the dumbest person on earth.