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To a certain extent I know my viewpoint is framed based on hindsight.

So its easy to say now 'oh we should have done this, should have done that.'

But at the end of the day there are a couple things that I think we would all agree are true.

The pharmaceutical industry is corrupt and would kill your grandma for a dollar.
The government is in bed with big business.

Both those things lined up to deal with almost a perfect storm of issues where governments were making decisions and rules not based on science or actual medical evidence, but based on emotion, pandering and lining of pockets.

When you have investors like Bill Gates cashing out hundreds of millions of dollars, and you can follow his rhetoric where he spent a bunch of timing playing up the vaccines, telling governments they need to do this, and presenting it as the saviour for mankind, and then all of a sudden he sells a bunch of stock, and starts questioning the efficiency and effectiveness of the same vaccine.

Nevermind the fact that taxpayers paid for a LOT of what the vaccines cost to develop, and Pfizer and their greedy band of #######s ran off with billions.
Third world countries got the shaft.
Pecking orders for rich nations
Etc, etc

The repercussions will be long and lasting.

Sadly many in the rich nations were happy to accept all this because of their fear for something that in the end wasn't much of a risk statistically, especially if one got vaccinated, which I'd imagine most did that actually took it seriously.
It only looked worse because of the fear mongering done by the media, etc.