This is probably the best historical article on covid that I have ever read. I'm going to balk at one thing:

Masking works. Mask mandates are a waste of everyone's time

Vaccines work, Vaccine mandates are both immoral and ineffective.

Lockdowns can work, lockdowns are immoral and cause huge problems down the road, ESPECIALLY when they are implemented in the way they were (no exit conditions defined BEFORE put in place)

The methodology was "We are going to virtue signal, and if that's not effective we are going to force people to do it".

This means that you and your teams, never got sociologists involved. Or you did, and they were socialist sociologists, who think everyone is on the same team. We, humans, are not, at all.

The second the specter of forcing people to do things raises its head, you have lost.

Next time (and there needs to be a generational gap before there is a real next time) stop with the "you are protecting others" and the "if you don't do this we will force you".

Works in small countries. Luxembourg size small countries. The presidents of larger countries should never have been involved. Covid doesnt attack entire countries at once, so here in the US we had locked down communities with zero instances of Covid in it. I live in Puerto Rico, where the lockdowns were out of control. People couldn't be in the streets, were encouraged to stay at homeland it spread like wildfire here, because no one could go to work and everyone was partying in people's houses.

Instead, Everyone should have been encouraged to go outside.

Vaccinating helps yourself. That is the only message.

Masking helps yourself, that is the only message.

Companies, homes, and private hospitals should be able to choose their own vaxxing and masking policies.

And utter and complete transparency. On all studies, data available publicly ESPECIALLY if it was publicly funded. Why this is not the norm currently is really not even justifiable.