To adequately assuage your ire, re: COVID, would take quite a bit of time, but if you'll give me a

chance I'll try to help you feel a bit better...OK?

Just to set the the context/tone...recall the early days of the pandemic when NYC had to use refrigerated tractor trailers as temporary morgues when some hospitals' own morgues were filled to capacity with COVID victims...and we had no vaccines developed and tested yet. Let that image sink in....

Then there was the revelation in April/May of 2020 that the virus (SARS-CoV-2)...unlike the previous Coronavirus (SARS-CoV)...could be spread by Un-Symptomatic Infected persons...i.e. you had no idea who was sick and who wasn't. In order to keep our HC System from being overwhelmed with seriously ill and dying COVID victims, large and closely formed groups needed to be avoided...hence the restrictions on gatherings and school closures...UNTIL vaccines could be approved...distributed...and USED by a sufficient percentage of the population. It was our only defense...along with Mask wearing... until the beginning of 2021.

I'll stop here for a moment and ask if you accept what I've just posted...if not, explain why not...