Everything government officials told us during the pandemic was a lie.
It was not a mistake, it was not bureaucratic confusion, it was a lie. Even after this information became available, they KEPT GOING – They kept people locked down, kept them masked and they even tried to force-vaccinate the population. There were some Republican politicians that also went along with the panic, many of them Neocons (fake conservatives).
However, the majority of red states quickly ended the restrictions once the contradictory data was made public. In the meantime, the blue states looked ridiculous and paranoid as they desperately clung to the mandates.
Facts.
And for many of the incompetent decisions made, are the flip-flopping on decisions, or the mass violations of basic human rights, it isn’t clear that they really helped a lot.
What comes next for all the money spent, most of the people that I know still got covid. Often after they got vaxxed.