Sometimes you gotta do what's best for the greater good. How is that hard to understand?
The greater good would be not giving into fearmongering, half-truths, and outright lies. Much of what was said about COVID has turned out to be false. Some claim this is because the information earlier on was imperfect. That is a lie.
There was more than enough information available early on to show that the threat from COVID was being exaggerated. There were a few doctors and others on Twitter pointing to the cruise ship data which showed the reality. These voices were ignored and denigrated. The early data out of Italy in April of 2020 clearly showed the highly age-stratified nature of the virus. This too was ignored in favor of claiming the population as a whole was at equal risk. The long-standing pandemic response plans from the WHO and other health authorities recommended
against lockdowns and masking. These plans were all summarily thrown out, and worse, an effort made to scrub those long-standing plans from the internet since they contradicted the sudden new approach. Children were made out to be major vectors of the virus despite the data unequivocally showing children were at nearly zero risk from it and were not significant spreaders of it.
And so on and so on.
Those who were skeptical of the COVID narrative from the start, those who did not succumb to the hysteria, paranoia, and fear, were in the end proved correct. I was one of those skeptics. When I started looking at the source data for myself, I quickly discovered that what the source data showed was rather different from what the news media and health authorities said the data showed. That was a major red flag. Then there were all the hypocrites, the politicians who preached masking and staying home, caught going on vacation or who were at public gatherings with no mask. Never forget Prof. Neil Ferguson, who was instrumental in stoking the hysteria with his predictions of hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.K. alone. It turned out the computer program he used to make those predictions was complete garbage, and he was later caught breaking lockdown rules so he could screw his mistress. Other than being fired, he has never been held to account for his actions in causing the mass panic.
Those who were wrong about COVID then now ask forgiveness for their actions. I have none to give. They should have known then they were wrong; they instead engaged in what was at best wilful blindness, and at worst, deliberate obfuscation.