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Sorry, I don't agree with the notion that the pandemic was somehow about 'freedom reductions' or control. The us has had many pandemics like all other countries where millions of people have died. During previous ones in the US, we did have new health regulations that were enforced. Examples were the 1918 flu pandemic in the US, and multiple times we've had required vaccinations for public health reasons such as around polio. So only a million people died, that is a million families with someone missing at the table, thousands of kids where both parents died.

The pandemic plans were about trying to avoid huge numbers of people dying unnecessarily, and all the grief that was caused by it to their loved ones. The US did a particularly bad job, considering that we are an advanced society with lots of money spent on health care.

Some people didn't get a bad reaction or die if they got it. Plenty of people did. I think something that kills a million people, overwhelms hospitals for years at a time, drives people out of the medical profession, that is more than the false narrative that it's just like the flu.