When this started, we knew people were going to die. I remember seeing initial estimates that said two million people were going to die if we did nothing. We did something, we now have over 300,000 dead.
People can Monday morning QB and say that what they would have done, would have been better, and less deaths would have happened.
I'm a cold-hearted asshole who understood that people were going to die. I feel bad for anyone who has lost someone to this, but honestly, I feel the same for them when they lose someone to a car accident or a stroke. Losing someone to COVID is not worse than any other way, they all suck.
You're entitled to your opinion that things could have been better, and I agree overall that things could have been better. Mistakes were made, but there were also some good decisions. If Clinton had won, the other side would be doing the same thing you are doing, taking whatever the death toll happened to be and talking about how unacceptable it was and latching on to every fuck up she made. If you are honest with yourself, you would admit that whatever administration dealt with this, there would be mistakes, and good decisions.