Always remember that policy universally is promoted to further the agenda of a given party! Many republican politicians opt for the abolition of early/absentee voting, and democrats the opposite. Bear in mind that these policies are not just ideological rhetoric, but political play, intended to benefit the ruling party rather than the wider people.
For the record, covid was a real disease, but completely overblown. The measures were mostly not helpful, and targeted small businesses.
My father died due to somebody else believing the same, ignoring the guidelines, and spreading Covid to him.
So kindly shut the fuck up, yeah?
My grandpa also died. Stage four lung cancer, but he spent the last year of his life locked up in a nursing home. Funnily enough, he had his first shot, but not the second.
I’m sorry your grandpa died, and it was heartbreaking that some people died apart from their families. I believe they changed the restrictions in the UK to allow terminal patients to have visitors by 2021. But if they hadn’t restricted visits to hospitals and nursing homes, so many more elderly and ill people would have died from covid - and not just the people who opted to take the risk and see their family. It was an awful time for everyone whether you died or lost someone, had to shield, missed crucial time at school, lost your job or your business, had to continue to work on the front lines, or even just had to follow the lockdown rules. But I don’t think any of the precautions taken at the time were done so lightly or heavy-handedly considering the uncertainty at the time.
At least 7 million people died as a very conservative estimate. Some estimates go as high as 30 million deaths. It’s the 4th most deadly epidemic/pandemic in the last millennia after the Black Death, Spanish flu, and HIV/AIDS. And that’s with all the lockdowns, social distancing measures and a truly groundbreaking rollout of vaccinations. There’s nothing overblown about that.