Did we panic for no reason? I remember overloaded hospitals, bodies kept in refrigerated trucks, and a new disease doctors weren’t sure about. No one was sure of anything.

Hindsight is 20/20 but early on we were all operating on the same partial information and guesswork. The response went entirely off the rails when they decided strip clubs and protests were OK, but churches were not. And of course, when they forced the vaccine. 

Mistakes were made, no doubt about it, but i feel like that’s unavoidable with a pandemic. There’s no game plan. Hell, nations couldn’t even shut travel down to prevent it breaching their borders. They tried but simply couldn’t do it. If this thing was a real world ender, that alone would have killed us all.