Not really. When the dust settles and we see the fallout caused myopic decision making by a small handful of "experts" it ain't gonna be pretty. The pandemic was real. People did die. But that doesn't mean any of what we did was right. I'd say we did virtually every single thing wrong. These "expert" scared the living daylights out of people instead of attempted to calm them. They downplayed any bit of good news (eg: the IFR for covid is way, way less than what the original models said). They promoted a culture of shaming and vitriol. They cheered on the absolute fuckage of our children by closing their schools for more than a year and then making them play safety theater when they returned. They intentionally stifled debates about what we were doing--god help anybody who questioned anything about what we've done.
Oh yeah, and they mandated crap like masks. Which did nothing real and just divided people even more. 50 years from now we are gonna laugh at how stupid humans were for wearing masks in the olympics. Dudes just got done going down the hill on their snowboard in the freezing cold and then they have to wear some giant honking mask on their face--despite them being fully vaccinated and constantly tested. It's modern rain-dances....
The whole thing is pure insanity and history will not look at what we did with any kind of positive light.
Oh yeah, and they mandated crap like masks. Which did nothing real and just divided people even more. 50 years from now we are gonna laugh at how stupid humans were for wearing masks in the olympics. Dudes just got done going down the hill on their snowboard in the freezing cold and then they have to wear some giant honking mask on their face--despite them being fully vaccinated and constantly tested. It's modern rain-dances....
The whole thing is pure insanity and history will not look at what we did with any kind of positive light.