I guess that it's hard to look at the pandemic as not being better off since half the country believes it was a hoax. Remember the piece on the woman who was dying, on a respirator in the hospital being told that she had covid and still wouldn't believe it!? That was 4 years ago. Remember the accusations that the death toll was exaggerated? Or, they were older and an already vulnerable part of the population who would have died anyway? This is not a short memory, but never having acknowledged that it was even happening at the time, outside of the left trying to make trump look bad on his response to covid. This truly was a long term chipping away at the American psyche and I am not a conspiracy theorist but Putin and the USSR won. All my former colleagues, ex-military, oath taking Americans were turned.