what-happened
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Your problem is you live in this black and white world. Plenty of things contributed to people, dying, they always do. A novel virus killed plenty of people. They were likley going to die anyway. American society is obese and unhealthy, prime hunting ground for viruses.. This one more so than others before it. Cardio vascular unhealthyness led to mass deaths. ISending people home and telling them to call back if they got sicker killed people. Not providing early intervention with available treatment killed people. Plenty of blame to go around...novel viruses tend to do that. Did vaccines save lives...sure, Did masking..maybe. Did isolation for two weeks help, maybe..it's a novel virus. Did ventilators kill people..yep. We literally killed people thinkiging we were saving them. Turns out in many cases, non invasive venting would have been the way to go. So many things to disect.If you believe that the vaccine reduces deaths, then what happens if we all get sick before the vaccine exists?
This isn’t a difficult question. But you don’t like the answer, so you word spam.
Linear approaches to this kind of stuff is rather silly. Lockdown are always effective until they are not - lockdowns are always short lived and are counterproductive to society when they go long. Mutation is what "saved" us, not vaccines, not masks, not lockdowns.