It was never about the mortality rate, it as always about protecting our hospital capacity from being overwhelmed, which would have caused significant loss of l

It was never about the mortality rate, it as always about protecting our hospital capacity from being overwhelmed, which would have caused significant loss of life and health above and beyond COVID's own death toll (which itself was very significant - even with the insane restrictions it was the 3rd leading cause of death in 2020). It's hard to imagine how anyone at this juncture could not know all of this.