Businesses could have stayed open IF the public were smart about it. People aren't being smart about it--therefore the mandates.
Hospitals should not be allowed to reach full capacity. It they are reaching full capacity due to irresponsible behavior of the public; then that problem needs to be solved. Anyone with a better solution than lockdowns ... do tell.
Our politicians are behaving the way they believe their supporters want them to. Trump is a clown because that's what his supporters want. Same with congressmen--they all do, publicly, what they think their constituents want.
This has become political because people can't seem to wear masks, or distance, without being forced to. That's why it has become political. The people reluctant to wear masks made it seem political.
Trump wasn't the problem. The people that put him in office are the problem.
Politicians don't cause lockdowns; people that do stupid shit during a pandemic cause lockdowns.
Trump is gone, but he wasn't the real problem. Stupid was/is the real problem.
And stupid is looking for an appropriate candidate for 2024.
It ain't ova.
So people and leaders all over Europe and Canada are stupid too?