Regardless of what anyone on "our side" either believes or likes to pretend to believe to work the "payback", this actually was a far more dangerous virus when it first made landfall here. Don't get me wrong, mass shutdowns, school shutdowns, mass masking etc were all stupid and wrong for all but the most densely populated coastal hubs, and NONE OF THEM should have went past 70 days in each area as infection rates ramped up.
There should been a different response each time that the weakened but more contagious airborne virus made another round, always protecting the weak and pushing on like, well, Americans. Instead, they all lied and exaggerated to us to squash the economy and create more federal dependency. Just like the God-damned Democrats they are. NO ONE should be surprised that the Dems/DC/fake news bitches alliance manipulated the truth, and the People with it.
We should/could have had a different response for each wave of the virus, in each area. That is why Trump deferred to the states. It wasn't just sound Constitutional reasoning, it was FAR BETTER epidemiological reasoning, too.
All of that Covid economic pain could have been minimized, too, but the DEMOCRATS WANTED TO CRASH THE BUS.
The only way that they could bail out all the ALREADY GROSSLY UNDERFUNDED pension and other benefit plans of the municipal employees in ALL THE BIG BLUE CITIES was to create a catastrophe. The reason is that most Democrats want a lot of "free" services where they live, but they don't tax themselves and the commuters enough to pay for all their ammenities. They need an excuse to get ALL OF US to PAY THEIR WAY, so the Demarxists told the CDC to invent the excuse. Global Pandemic Theater.
The CDC should have been available to advise the Health Dep'ts of each of the 50 states, not be made into Biden's cudgel.